Logic IV 95
Books V VI VII of the Republic are at any rate of the nature of an addendum. The first thirteen pages of the Book V relate to women and children. Men and women are to have the same occupations. Here we note by the way that the gest of proverbs is said to be that the useful is fine and the hurtful vile: [foreign text] (457B.) The wives of the defenders are to bein common and their children too and no parent is to know its own child nor the child the parents. The breeding is to take place by careful selection. Lots will be drawn but there is to be cheating about it. Thus the state will be one complex family. Children to be taken to the wars. Diogenes Laertius [?] quotes an author who says that Plato served at the battle of Tangra. he was at that time six years old. Those who are courageous are to be worshipped after death. No Greek to be enslaved. Kings must be philosophers and philosophers must be kings. This opens the second subject which begins toward the
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