... the process of the education system that Plato has set up and with a pure knowledge above everyone else that makes them best qualified to rule. The first stage is very primitive at best and simply contains the key elements needed to fulfil the "underlying principles of any society"3. The two principles Socrates found were first, mutual need, as "The individual is not self sufficient but has many needs which he can't supply himself"4. Therefore humans need to live together in societies in order to survive. Plato lists the basic needs of the basic community as being provision of food, shelter, and clothing requiring tradesmen to provide services such as farming, weaving and building as well as others providing support by making the necessary equipment for them. So from this, a small state is begun on a purely economic basis. Adequate provision for people's own needs is what for the ...

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