Guardians' Manner of Living." In it, he discusses the necessities of education as they apply to the appropriate selection of and reparation for the community's leaders.

As in other areas of "The Republic," Plato carefully outlines the delineations which form the basis for the types of rulers to be installed in the state. "Rulers" (legislative and udicial), "Auxiliaries" (executive), and "Craftsmen" (productive and fficacious) are the titles of the categories and are based, not on birth or wealth, but on natural capacities and aspirations. Plato was convinced that children born into any class should still be moved up or down based on their merits regardless of their connections or heritage. He believes the citizens of the State will support and benefit from such a system and presents the idea in the form of an allegorical myth.

His allegory was based in part on the prevalent be

of earlier, a single bold flight of invention, which we may induce the community in general, and if possible the Rulers themselves, to accept?" (The Republic of Plato X:III-414). Such a tongue-in-cheek question, the reference to "a single bold flight of invention" is what

"They must have the right sort of intelligence and ability; and also they must look upon the commonwealth as their special concern - the sort of concern that is felt for something so closely bound up with oneself that its interests and fortunes, for good or ill, are held to be identical with one's own" (The Republic of Plato X:III-412) Socrates tells Glaucon who naturally agrees. Socrates goes on to emphasize that the men that are chosen from among the Guardians must be those who are filled with enthusiasm and the determination to do the best they possibly can for the greater good of the people of the

lief that some people were literally "autochthonous," born from the soil, and partly from the stories of the philosopher Hesiod who chronicled the genealogy of the gods and goddesses as well as their accomplishments and exploits. Hesiod's account of the Golden, Silver, and Bronze races which had succeeded one another before the current to "The Republic's" age of Iron forms the basis for the myths of the metals. Since the ancient Greeks were convinced that all myths were primarily the work of even more ancient poets who had been inspired by the

Socrates expands on his metaphor of the metals and explains that the future rulers must be fashioned as precious metals are fashioned by careful artistry and craft. But first he asks Glaucon: ". . . can we devise something in the way of those convenient fictions we spoke

noting that "although your children will generally be like their parents, sometimes a golden parent may have a silver child or a silver parent a gol

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