Major Ideas In Socrates 'Book 5 Of Republic'

Major Ideas From Republic 5
(An educational view of 3 major ideas from Republic 5) Socrates points out some very interesting key ideas in Book 5 of Republic. A lot of the things he says are very controversial to people in the book, and to people in society today. A lot of people would strongly disagree with a lot if not everything that he says in Book 5 particularly. The people that strongly disagree with what Socrates is saying are usually the sophists. The sophists include Adeimantus, Thrasymachus, and others. By definition sophists are “ancient Greek teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and the art of successful living.” Sophists are paid to reason so they don’t like to actually reason so they don’t put up with people that actually think like Socrates. A couple of the key controversial points that Socrates makes are that men and women are equal, that procreation shouldn’t be done whenever, and that if kids want to be guardians they should be going to war and observing it. …show more content…
Aristotle thinks that women are inferior to men in every single way. Many people in today’s society would also think that Socrates’s comment about men and women is way too radical and outrageous. Many people would point out today that there hasn’t ever been a women president and there shouldn’t ever be one. Socrates asks ‘why not?’ Socrates thinks that women should have just as good of a chance to be president like men do. Socrates doesn’t just say this as his opinion, but he actually says that women will be trained alongside men in the near future. Socrates also points at that in the future women will receive the same education and have the same political