... nurses, in order to give them the proper resources to one day succeed at their predetermined occupation. "And I suppose they will take the offspring of good parents to the rearing pen and hand them over to special nurses who live in a separate part of the city" (Plato, Republic, 460b-c). All of Plato's policies were implemented in attempt to both ... of choice. Furthermore the notion that children should be taken from their parents to be raised separates the natural bond between mother and child. This bond is fundamental freedom and has immense value to the growth and development of a c...

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... as they wish, so long as no children are conceived. If conception does occur, the fetus is to be dealt with "on the understanding that there's to be no rearing for such a child" (459c). Most of Plato's argument is challenging to tackle in our time. Few would dispute that the best arbiter of employment is ability. However, the society Plato described only ... ...

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... that Plato's means for dealing with the private family in his Just City will not bring about justice.  Plato's plan seems to rest upon the notion that by implementing communal child rearing and by treating the entire city as one family, he can have the benefits of the private family, namely the unity it creates amongst family members, without the injustice it ... ...

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