Plato is considered the most influential
philosopher ever existed, we have taken
Advantage of his ideas to build our
societies and cities however there is a
dark side of Plato one aspect of the
Republic Plato's masterpiece that
Usually goes an artist is that there are
no non-Platonist those who disagree
with Plato in the city;  the effort to
maintain absolute control over thought
cannot help but become tyrannical in
this video I explain why Plato was more
Totalitarian than you might think
I am Farhang Namdar from SuperPolitics
It could be argued that Plato's ideal
state of Kallipolis allows for very Llittle freedom of expression
Little diversity and a stubborn
commitment to a Spartan-like social life
Plato was born in Athens in 427 BC until
its mid-20s Athens was involved in a
Long and disastrous military conflict
with Sparta
Known as  the Peloponnesian war in
which Sparta
Invaded Athens giving birth to play to a
theory of family Plato said that
Marriage and Procreation are for the
sake of the city to put it bluntly
Marriage is to create soldiers there is
nothing like romantic love among the
Members of the garden class sexual
relations are intended strictly for the
Sake of reproduction with unwanted
fetuses aborted
No children should know their biological
parents and no parents their children
The purpose of this is to create a
garden class absolutely loyal to the
City with no relations to any other
person this is and was a dream for many
Dictators Hitler had a plan called
Lebensborn
It was raising the birthrate of Aryan
children of persons classified as
Racially pure and healthy based on Nazi
racial hygiene and health ideology
Modern biology would bring dictatorship
into a whole new level from producing
Human species without a need for parents
and communications technology would
Realize Orwell's big brother making the
world a tiny prison cell Plato in the
Republic called for communism in land
among the rulers of the state
As a means of removing sources of
discontent it was Plato first who called
For communism not Karl Marx
This would concentrate power and wealth
in the hands of few and such a state
Cannot help but to become a totalitarian
state as it happened in the Soviet Union
In the Republic Plato criticizes direct
and unchecked democracy of his time
Precisely because of its leading
features of freedom and equality
Although Freedom is for Plato a true value
democracy involved the dangers of
Excessive freedom this he find will lead
people to anarchy
He believed it not everybody can be king
And he believed in the idea of
philosopher-king People raised birthto
be Kings they have to be logicians wise
and capable of ruling thus Plato favored
the rule few which is equivalent of
concentration of power and wealth in the
hands of few which as history shows
leads to dictatorship
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