The other sets cannot be warriors and warriors cannot be the other sets as each set is specialized in their own place within the society. Plato explains that education is needed to promote a person to do better or be more positive of a character as that person would have a healthier soul by doing so. An uneducated person would not have a healthy soul and could be more of a negative influence on the society. Each different set or class needs to be educated to meet their criteria. A set or class does not need to learn to specialize in another class or set as that time given would be a waste of time and could be more of a negative outcome. Plato’s cave talks about how people within a society experience reality individually and how to truly experience reality. Plato uses the cave as a reference to people not being able to experience the real world outside as those people spent their whole lives believing their reality that the people have only experienced is the only one that is true. People experiencing their form of reality through pictures or interstation’s of an idea or concept would never be able to full understand the truth behind what the people are experiencing until those people have experienced their form of reality themselves firsthand. These higher forms …show more content…
I disagree with this idea or aspect of this philosophy since even those that have the greatest of diamonds according to Plato would have the same chance of dying as everyone else, it is difficult to state who has the greatest of all diamonds and if those people are using those diamonds correctly. Also under the special circumstance that children could be put first on the list, I would agree that this is fine as they could have the best diamond without us even knowing yet and this gives them the ability to show off that diamond if that child has those traits. Even though I disagree with the certain aspect of how Plato believes healthcare should be used in his system, I believe his system does contain many truths that could benefit any