Plato's Ideal City Essay

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First Paper Assignment Plato believed that his “ideal city” would be successful. With different tears of quality of life, and the ways of classifying people, he believed it would work out. However, if you really look at the structure of his ideal city, and of our modern day society, it simply would not work. Though you can also find many similarities between his ideal city and our modern world today, which in some ways his ideal city could possibly work. The foundation of Plato’s ideal city was to have different classes of people. The producing class, auxiliaries, philosophers, kings, queens, and so on. The producing class is the largest class. This class basically included everyone. From artists to farmers, this class was the vastly large class. It did not, however, include the warriors or the rulers of the ideal city. The next class of people were the auxiliaries are basically warriors. They were there to defend the city and make sure no others were trying to invade it. They were basically the police, except the would have authority over the police in modern day …show more content…

That they needed to make all the decisions in order to have a perfect city. Plato obviously felt so strongly about this because back in 400 BC, philosophers were not very appreciated at all. Plato saw his society as wrongfully managed and honestly believed that philosophers ruling everything would some how make a difference. Another problem with Plato’s ideal society, is that no one would be represented. There would be no power to the people. It would solely be based on the rulers and the philosophers. Without the people of the city being represented, no one will be able to make any changes for the common good. It will only be objective opinions by the rulers who will not be able to see the struggle of the lowest classes. Which those classes, I would assume, would have absolutely no

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