Saturday, March 10, 2018

History of Western Philosophy, Russel: Ch-14 Plato's Utopia

4/16/2016
- 'Republic' (dialogue) consists of three parts
- First one consists of ideal commonwealth, earliest of Utopia
- Defined just state and then individual
- Three types of citizen
   1. common people 2. soldiers 3. guardians
- Education - music and gymanstics
- Thorough going communism for guardians
- Marriage arranged by state
- Children are taken away from parents.
- Justice - everybody doing his own work
- Ideals - objective ?
- Religion - Good is determined by God
- Plato's Republic was intended to be actually founded.
- Then the conditions was not right to establish Utopia by any philosopher.

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