Mess in the Henhouse

This is not really a dialogue. In Plato's Republic says mainly Socrates,

the rest of the interlocutors nod. Plato - half seriously - dresses his hero
in the costume of the legendary Spartan legislator, Lycurgus.
Socrates founds the state.

One of its foundations should be justice,

but this definition is not easy. The participants of the dialogue
set out on a journey to its sources. The road leads through such places as:
wisdom, courage and temperance.

... Finally, they return to the starting point. Justice

may have been hiding in these bushes all the time - Socrates says
with a sly smile (justice is what after centuries Voltaire
called "cultivating our own garden").

Thus, an ideal state should be wise, courageous,

temperate and just. We are beginning to worry, however,
when Plato says that a carefully selected caste of dandies
will stand guard over it.

Public roles should also be played by women; but the philosopher

(who, as we know, had no experiences with the fairer sex)
sets men's and women's relationships in this project with the theoretician's ease.
It is rather a mess in a henhouse
or situation at the rear of a military camp.

It's not everything. Censorship is to regulate youth education,

and fuel from myths should drive the official ideology.
Plato knows that he only guides a tour in the scientist's laboratory
and wants to do well. After more than two millennia, however,
it turns out that there were disciples, who - seeking justice -
also got stuck in the bushes.

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