Socrates Definition Of Equality

The Inconsistency of Plato’s Equality
In Plato’s Republic, Socrates is inconsistent with his presupposition of equality within his utopian society. For example, Socrates supports equality of women, but fails to encompass the ideas of equality for social, economic, education, those with disabilities and the overall equality of freedom.
At no point does Socrates deny that there are differences between the sexes. His ideas on equality lies solely in the nature of humans. Socrates does not falsely pretend that women are as physically capable as men he also doesn’t deny that women are better at tasks such as being maternal. In Socrates’ perfect utopian community and\or society, the Kallipolis divides into producers, guardians, and rulers; each

Socrates creates Myth of the metals to divide people into classes. Socrates does not believe men are created equal. Socrates believes every man or women born have different skills and\or inherited nature. The Myth of the Metals creation story is created to give people\citizens in the society someone to blame for their misfortune, the Gods. The creation story states the people were born from the earth with special gifts. That the Gods framed each of them differently, mixing different kinds of metals into their soul for their different skills and purposes; gold for the rulers, silver for the auxiliaries, and iron or brass for the producers and craftsmen. Offspring in society would be produced at marriage festivals and then birthed around the same time. Once the children were born they are taken away from their mother and raised in a state nursey. In the State Nursey all the children are raised collectively as a whole and no parents knows which child is theirs, all the children of that birth year are thought of as theirs. Children will more than likely be born the same metal as their parent according to Plato. Children are usually made of the same metal as their parents, but if this is not the case the child must either descend or ascend in the social order; ascending social order is not a common or likely outcome it is more a “excuse” or cover up to make parents feel like their child could possibly be more than a bronze or

Socrates believes liberal art education shouldn’t be wasted on the iron and bronze class. Education should be for the gold class to people rule over the people and create laws and for the sliver and\or auxiliary class. Each class receives a different focus on education in order to meet their full potential and skill set they were born with. The bronze and iron class will be educated on the daily tasks they will use for their producing or craftsmen jobs. Whereas he gold and iron class will receive a fully rounded education in order to fully prepare themselves for the jobs before them. The sliver class in educated along with the gold practically until the near end. Though the physical training for the sliver differs based on gender due to the modifications made for the physically weaker women. Education is not equal among the social metal classes