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Plato and a Sophist Talk with Mustapha Mond In response to Mustapha Mond’s claim that his world has been created to fulfill the real needs of human nature, Plato would respond by saying that he adamantly does not agree. The Brave New World empowers and celebrates the body and the human condition. In this celebration, the goodness of the soul and the truth and knowledge that the soul possesses is trapped in a useless …

…its customs are wrong. The Sophists would disagree with Plato over his opinion of Bokanovsky’s process, saying that if it is the custom of the people of the Brave New World, then who is Plato to knock it. Sophists believe that knowledge of ultimate reality is not accessible to humans, so hypnopedia, soma and free sex do not inhibit people from knowing what is real, since we will never truly know what is real.