duce food, a builder to build houses, a weaver to provide food, a cobbler, and someone who would provide medical care. In Plato’s eyes, four or five citizens at least are required to make a city. Each of these people would have to contribute equally to the community and since each person can only one thing well, there must be a division of labor into different employments; into wholesale and retail trade; into workers, and makers of workmen's tools; into shepherds and husbandmen. But then again, Plato realizes that no city can exist successfully without imports. Therefore, exports will be required as well, and this implies variety of produce in order to attract the taste of purchasers; also merchants and ships. In the city too there must be a market and money and retail trades; otherwise buyers and sellers will never meet, and the valuable time of the producers will be wasted in vain efforts at exchange. Plato ideal polis is almost complete when he adds hired servants and he state that somewhere in the interaction of citizens with one another justice and injustice will appear.Even though Plato’s ideal polis has enough citizens, his fellow friends argue that his city is not satisfying and needs some comforts of life. What Plato states is that with more comforts the city will not be the primitive polis he intended but a luxurious city. He then adds the fine arts, dancers, painters, sculptors, musicians, cooks, barbers, tire-women, nurses, artists, and physicians to cure the disorders of which luxury is the source. Yet he realizes that in order to fit all people in the city, it has to be increased in size therefore it needs more land, which has to acquire from its neighbor. And this is the origin of war, which may be traced to the same causes as other political evils. The city will now require the slight addition of a camp, and the citizen will be converted into soldiers called guardians. But then again, due to the divi...
