POL 2107 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 - Plato pt. II.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2107
• Professor: Sophie Bourgault

Document Summary

Each citizen is born with individual natural endowment: people born with silver will be aux, gold will be rulers, rest are craftsmen, farmers, emphasis: god is responsible for this (cid:224) why is this important? b/c gods can only be responsible for good things, division of city in groups must therefore be a good thing (cid:223) divine sanction, nothing seems to matter more than segregation, keeping bronze away from gold away from silver, plato thinks we are naturally talented in one thing (cid:224) both for our good and the good of the city. Children to be raised in common by the state; wives are to be held in common (cid:224) feminism aspect eww: process is common, children raised in common (cid:224) babies taken away from biological mother after birth; referring to all adult females as mothers and adult males as fathers, men will also look after the children.