Who Is Contradicted In Plato's The Republic

Sitting in a room hearing a lecture, there are two types of people. On type is the one that just listens and agrees, they don’t really think too hard on what is being taught. They don’t contradict what is being said. Then there is the second kind of person who listens and asks questions, someone who contradicts and comes up with scenarios about how that wouldn’t work. In Plato, that is Glaucon. Socrates starts out by asking what justice is. He goes on a tangent about the just individual by explaining the just community because Glaucon had a question. In his teachings, he brings up some things that can be contradicted. In Plato’s The Republic, the arguments are his view on families, what is real or not, and finally, what is ideal.
In Plato’s The Republic, the fact that he doesn’t have families very contradicting to his cause. In his book, he talks about what people will be thinking about when they die. The people who they loved and didn’t love. However, he goes on to say that in the ideal republic, he would not have families, and the children wouldn’t know their parents. This contradicts what he has said entirely. If people, when they die, will be essentially thinking about their families, then how are they supposed to have one when they aren’t allowed to.. Family in important, there are some who believe that family is one of the things …show more content…
There are a lot of different types of groups. There could be groups of both evil and righteous. For example, there was the rise of the German army during World War II. They did rise, and they did fall. However, Socrates says that if we can keep what happens during the rise, then we will become an ideal system. However, looking at that rise, why would anyone want to become that? The argument being, not all rises are good rises. There is a rise of evil that is definitely not ideal, things no one