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What is Plato s concept of ideal state?​

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Plato was influenced of the Pythagorean theory of the human nature. Pythagoras classifies human nature in three sections that are reason, courage and appetite. Plato says that state is a living body and state represents the same features at large level, which an individual represents at small level. Individuals are the organs of the state. As an organ cannot survive without body, similarly, an individual is nothing out of the state. State is composed of classes and these classes are its parts. He based his ideal state on the three major classes. The ruling class, highly educated in philosophy, is to administer the state. A military class, having courage and physical strength, is to defend the state while professional class is needed to be ruled and to deal with the ordinary or common daily affairs of the state. So, he bases his ideal state on the three major classes, which are the ruling class, military class and the professional class. These classes are also known as the guiding class, auxiliary class and professional class.

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