[456c]
“By all means.” “Our
legislation, then, was not impracticable or utopian,1 since the law we proposed accorded with
nature. Rather, the other way of doing things, prevalent today, proves, as
it seems, unnatural.” “Apparently.”
“The object of our inquiry was the possibility and the
desirability2 of what we were proposing.” “It
was.” “That it is possible has been admitted.”
“Yes.” “The next point to be agreed upon is
that it is the best way.” “Obviously.”
“For the production of a guardian, then, education will not be one
thing for our men and another for our women, especially since
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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