Outline Part IX: Imperfect Societies 1. Recapitulation Socrates and Glaucon briefly review the traits of the ideal state. The salient points are that men and women should be equal in education and occupations. Further they should be governed by those rare individuals who are best at philosophy and war. These philosopher rulers shall not possess private property and shall accept their annual wages as sufficient for acting as Guardians of the state. Adeimantus expresses interest in having Socrates expand on his previous allusion to four types of states or societies. The four are named as the Cre...

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... beloved by the gods, which was already defeated as the second proposal. The definition of justice was left for a later discussion in the Republic. In the Republic, the first attempt at defining justice was by the father of Polemarchus, Cephalus, who believed that speaking the truth and paying off one's ... of dialogue between fellow philosophers in order to give each perspective a voice. The Republic was just that and he used it as an outlet to brake down the soul into three main parts: the appetite, spirited, and rational. Plato, through his characters, then went on to discuss strength ...

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