He felt that the regime could command people who would follow because they knew what their role in the ordered society was, such as a farmers job to farm and a soldiers job to protect the city for the common good. Plato saw job of philosophers to compel the best natures to study to see the good and ascent up in intellect, to know what injustice is and never want to do it. What he meant by best natures is simply the educated who have experienced truth and are the best to rule.(519c) Plato believed that healthy souls came from the knowledge of justice. He believed that just men, who were the pupils of the philosopher would not disobey them but join in the labors of the city.(520d) To him justice is not ones own good, but the common good of the Republic.
Plato believed that order was the most important responsibility of a regime and that his ideal one was most suited for this, unlike that of a democracy, which gave to much free will or liberty to men to do whatever he wants. He felt that the poor, uneducated citizen neither understood.
order, or knew the truth. Saw the citizen as a prisioner in a cave, that still did not have the knowledge of what the truth really was. Plato therefore believed that the intellegent educated philosopher knew the truth and therefore would be just. Plato believed that the philosopher had.
attained the truth after years of searching for it by way of education and age. He likewise felt that it was the philosopher class that would lead a city not for personal gain, which would cause anger among the common people, but one of harmony was the goal of his ideal regime. .
Platos regime is based on reason of an educated man, that was not corrupt, but one that had knowledge of what was just, working side by side, improving from one generation to the next. And those who were leaders of the cities were ones that showed the highest abilities in intellect, while those least in ability of knowledge, would be of the lower class, such as farmers and merchants.
