True Rulers’ Education and Qualities as Described in Plato’s Republic Throughout Plato’s republic, the construction of the ideal city, the Kallipolis and its components are spoken about thoroughly, one of its main components are the guardians. The guardians are the highest and ruling class of the three classes of the Kallipolis; producers, auxiliaries and guardians. Guardians are chosen from the ranks of the auxiliaries (Plato, 2004, 101). The guardians’ education, upbringing, lifestyle, soul, diet, training etc. are all put into account when training to become a guardian. The guardians are brought up with meticulous planning, from their childhood they would to go through training to become philosophers who are noble in character, stay true
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There are different steps in education, first is musical training for their souls, which included poetry and stories as well music proper (Plato, 2004, 328) .The way they were raised was also through complete censorship, the music they were taught was to demonstrate the guardians’ courage when engaged in a battle, engaged in peaceful enterprises, being patient while listening to someone else, acting moderately and temperate and not arrogantly (Plato, 2004, 81), and the next was physical training for their bodies, which included dance and training in warfare as well as what we call physical training (Plato, 2004, 328). Children were brought to the battles that were not as dangerous and observed how to fight and how they should react to different warlike situations (Plato, 2004, 159). The next steps to education are philosophical, since musical and physical training teach habits by example and so does not create a complete training, as stated before, that the first stage of training only creates ‘noble hounds’ (Plato, 2004, 216), the philosophical is where the mind of the guardians are put to tests concerning ignorance, truth, the good and knowledge by learning the forms and escaping from the ‘cave’ as well as tunes their mindset to comprehend the meaning of learning, instead of having a false sense of learning and can develop …show more content…
The education from youth and the upbringing in accordance with previous philosophical training creates guardians who are attracted to the truth and the good in things and their natures are inclined to reach for the intelligible realm. The reason they are to be dragged out is that they have been in the caves since childhood, so whatever they have been brought up seeing is what they believe to be the ‘truth’ just as the children in the Kallipolis would be brought up with believe what they are learning is the ‘truth’, by dragging the people out of the cave they are angry since they are being taken away from the good in their own definition but slowly, as they see light and the good above the ground they can surely become better people. The process to become a better person, philosophically, cannot be timed since it is such an intense and heavy process to understand just as Socrates says …’do not use compulsion…train the children in these subjects; use play instead. That way you will also be able to see better what each of them is naturally suited for” (Plato, 2004, 232). Just like in this case, it does not take a couple of
There are different steps in education, first is musical training for their souls, which included poetry and stories as well music proper (Plato, 2004, 328) .The way they were raised was also through complete censorship, the music they were taught was to demonstrate the guardians’ courage when engaged in a battle, engaged in peaceful enterprises, being patient while listening to someone else, acting moderately and temperate and not arrogantly (Plato, 2004, 81), and the next was physical training for their bodies, which included dance and training in warfare as well as what we call physical training (Plato, 2004, 328). Children were brought to the battles that were not as dangerous and observed how to fight and how they should react to different warlike situations (Plato, 2004, 159). The next steps to education are philosophical, since musical and physical training teach habits by example and so does not create a complete training, as stated before, that the first stage of training only creates ‘noble hounds’ (Plato, 2004, 216), the philosophical is where the mind of the guardians are put to tests concerning ignorance, truth, the good and knowledge by learning the forms and escaping from the ‘cave’ as well as tunes their mindset to comprehend the meaning of learning, instead of having a false sense of learning and can develop …show more content…
The education from youth and the upbringing in accordance with previous philosophical training creates guardians who are attracted to the truth and the good in things and their natures are inclined to reach for the intelligible realm. The reason they are to be dragged out is that they have been in the caves since childhood, so whatever they have been brought up seeing is what they believe to be the ‘truth’ just as the children in the Kallipolis would be brought up with believe what they are learning is the ‘truth’, by dragging the people out of the cave they are angry since they are being taken away from the good in their own definition but slowly, as they see light and the good above the ground they can surely become better people. The process to become a better person, philosophically, cannot be timed since it is such an intense and heavy process to understand just as Socrates says …’do not use compulsion…train the children in these subjects; use play instead. That way you will also be able to see better what each of them is naturally suited for” (Plato, 2004, 232). Just like in this case, it does not take a couple of