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Gulliver

If Socrates were to be taken out of the Ancient Greek world and placed into modern society, his shock might very well give him a heart attack. Letting him see automobiles, skyscrapers, and even modern clothes would be so distant from what he was used to that he would have a great amount of trouble understanding the world around him. Socrates would be ignorant of how modern society works, despite the fact that he is wiser, nobler, and even better than the average modern man. Such is the way of the Houyhnhnms in book four of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels when Gulliver is explaining the European world to these magnificent beings. Gulliver faces many difficulties describing Europe because the Houyhnhnms are so rational, benevolent, and excellent that they do not experience the day-to-day evils that civilized man faces. Out of their rationality, the horses are able to eventually interpret how European life is lived, but the noble Houyhnhnms fail to truly understand why m


an acts without reason-which man does, according to the Houyhnhnms, with every evil act. Perhaps the most difficult and obvious counter productive evil the Houyhnhnms must understand is saying "the thing that which is not." Falsehood is so distant from the Houyhnhnms' personas-because it does not subscribe to any rational thinking-that the Houyhnhnms can only see mankind as acting absurd whenever they lie.

Gulliver must explain lying (to say "the thing that which is not") to his Master Houyhnhnm in order for the Master to gain a better understanding of European humans. Houyhnhnms being near infinite rational beings naturally established several rules for lying to be ridiculous. First, the Houyhnhnms establish that communication is done in order to let people understand one another. Conversation is done to give and receive facts. So speech (being a form of communication) is done with the goal or intention to inform. To say that which is not is to defeat this end becau

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