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Plato’s Ideal State

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&NewLine;<&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Following are the three eminent books of Plato &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Republic”&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Laws” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The statesman” in which Plato discussed about the nature of state and the sovereign&period; However&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Republic” is the book in which he discussed his view about the ideal state&comma; despite the fact that&comma; it is actually possible to create such state or not&period; Plato’s ideal state is based on Socratic doctrine&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;ideal is real” by this he meant that&comma; reality should be found in the ideas of permanent things not in the things which are supposed to be changed or decay&period; According to Plato ideal state should be a model for all the states in the world&period; It is secondary question whether actual states adopt the model of ideal state or not&period; His aim was to show that how a state should be or must be&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Plato explain his theory of ideal state with the help of analogy between individual and state&period; According to Plato state is the magnified individual because both are same in composition and qualities&period; As Plato believe that human soul consist of appetite&comma; courage and reason&comma; on the other hand&comma; state also consist of the three classes&comma; guardian&comma; soldiers and producers&period; Plato ideal state is based on his three concepts&comma; &lpar;communism&rpar; the new social order for guardian class&comma; state regulated education scheme and rule of philosophy&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Communism does not mean to improve the living standard of people in the state&comma; neither it applies to whole community&period; Communism can only apply to the guardian class&comma; to keep them away from economic and worldly temptation&period; Which states that&comma; guardian class should not own any property&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">In his book &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The law” he construct a model of a state&comma; which comprised of 5040 citizens&period; Those citizens were divided in to the 12 tribes and community which were administered and governed by the state council&period; He said that such state should be situated away from the sea because at that time the naval power of the state was very weak&period; Moreover&comma; he emphasized on the agriculture self-sufficient state and defy the idea of commercial state&comma; according to him in commercial state citizen forget their civic duties&period;&nbsp&semi; According to Plato&comma; there should be middle class people in the state because they will provide stability to the state&period;&nbsp&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Plato said that&comma; the guardian class should be healthy&comma; honest&comma; selfless&comma; incorruptible&comma; wise and evenhanded&period; The question here is how people acquire such qualities&quest; Plato answer to the question was education&period; Further he discussed about the children of the guardians they will be free from all parental handicaps&period; Loved by all the parents&period; They will be the state responsibility&comma; state will look after their basic needs and education&period; In Plato ideal state there will be no law and the head of the state will be king philosopher&period; He argue that&comma; if people in the state have good and sound character then there is no need of law&period; Even if their character is unsound or bad they will not care for law and the law will still be unnecessary&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;--CusAds0-->&NewLine;<div style&equals;"font-size&colon; 0px&semi; height&colon; 0px&semi; line-height&colon; 0px&semi; margin&colon; 0&semi; padding&colon; 0&semi; clear&colon; both&semi;"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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