... to rule, which he reflects further on in The Republic. Plato's republic assigned individuals to careers by way of education. The first of the citizens who failed in the education were assigned to businessmen and traders. Those remaining would learn geometry and mathematics. The batch of failures in this group would comprise the military. The final, few elite would learn what he considered the ... most important: philosophy. They would also learn to live minimally, and in simple homes, such as he often did in life. This is Plato's picture of the true philosopher king, and those most ... ...

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... actually mean anything. And yet [reflectively] for 6ooo drachmas, Hyperbolus did manage to learn it." As can be seen, Socrates is portrayed as a rather shrewd Character within the world of Aristophanes Comedies, teaching those he deems of less intelligence the ways of arguing. Aristophanes makes a joke of Socrates Arguments, saying "good debating points which don't actually mean anything". It can be seen that Aristophanes view ... claims that Plato poses two very different Philosophers called Socrates. One is "a moral Philosopher, pure and simple" stating that he has no interest in Math...

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