POLS 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nuclear Family, Glaucon, Incest Taboo
4 Oct 2017
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Guardians sharing everything amongst each other, including wives and children. Socrates had to overcome 3 waves of criticism to this proposal to prove his point. 1) men and women would be equal in terms of training and responsibilities - assault on the traditional family - radical and innovative argument. Slight alteration, call for revolution - philosophers as kings overseeing a airs of the state - socrates defends philosophy, making the. Plato being critical of democracy - the multitude is not a group of philosophers. Philosophy survives only because few souls persevere. Philosophers not politically active - thus make no contribution to civic life. Making the kallipolis from an existing city means a philosopher would have to rule - transformation would require radical measures. Socrates has answered 3rd wave of criticism - has shown the kallipolis, including sharing of wives and children - is best for the city, and is not infeasible to do.
