Plato has a concept of the ideal city and he thinks that society should be ruled by a king who knows a lot about philosophy. He also believes that there is a need for strict division of labor. Some people ask "is this the best way to run a society?" This essay will be answering that question and any others that happen to come up.
Plato argues that it is very important to have a well ordered city and that's its important to have people specialized in certain areas. He finds that the most efficient was to do this is to divide the city into groups and assign them special tasks according to their own special abilities. (Draeger Notes) Plato chose three groups to be in his ideal city they were: The Guardians, The Auxiliaries, and the Craftsmen.
The Guardians were the ruling class. They happened to be the best, the brightest, and the most educated people in the city. They were also educated to rule as philosopher kings. Plato seems to think that the guardians should be like a well trained dog, they should be nice and gentle to their own people but when their enemy's come around be very harsh and mean. I find this statement to be true. If your going to have a ruler you want him to be nice to the people. If you have a ruler who is mean to his own people, then the city isn't going to function very well. No one wants to have a ruler who they are deadly afraid of, they want someone who they can go to and talk with about the city. It's also very important that the ruler is mean to the enemy's. If they city gets attacked you don't want a ruler who's going to be afraid and not want to do anything, you want someone who is going to take action and go after the people who are trying to hurt his city and people. Plato also stated that the guar ...