6/30/2023 0 Comments Plato the republicThe best warriors will get to sleep with the most beautiful women. Less amusing is the proposed power of Socrates’ enlightened guardians to “breed” men and women as breeders selectively mate horses, dogs or fighting birds. When Socrates suggests that justice is only possible if philosophers become kings, or kings philosophers, his young companion Glaucon jokes that most people on hearing this will probably reach for their weapons. The third class are craftspeople and traders more recognisable to us today. Indeed, Socrates depicts men and women as absolutely equal in all decisive senses. The second class will be “auxiliaries” or soldiers who will share everything in common, including wives and children. On top will be a ruling caste of (yes) philosopher-guardians. The Matrix 20 years on: how a sci-fi film tackled big philosophical questionsĭivided into ten “books”, the Republic is mostly taught as a text championing a series of radical prescriptions concerning the best city ( polis) or regime ( politeia).Īt a certain point, Plato’s Socrates tells his young friends that the best city will be one in which the population is divided into three castes. Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, Groucho Film Partnership Keanu Reeves in The Matrix (1999): the film revisits some of Plato’s ideas outlined in The Republic.
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