k the welfare of the state and what is best for all of its citizens. Educationin the city is needed to promote the achievement of a proper balance of society. Physicaltraining and musical performance along with basic intellectual development and theability to get rid of human natural desire would be needed to fill this position as aguardian. On Plato's view, it is vital for a society to exercise strict control over thecontent of everything that children read, see, or hear. By excluding all the poets andactors, there will be only one stimulation allowed in the city which is education. Thehighest goal in all of education, he believed, is knowledge of the Good; that is, notmerely an awareness of particular benefits and pleasures, but acquaintance with theactual form of good itself. Glaucon and Adeimantus pose some of the argumentsagainst the kind of life style Socrates promotes. They question Guardians happinesswhen they are separated from the general public. Socrates said that the happiness of theguardian must be put aside for the sake of the city. However, he points out, the guardianclass should be the happiest group under such a system. Socrates definition of justice iswhen each of these classes performs its own role appropriately and does not try to takeover the function of any other class, Plato believed that the entire city as a whole willoperate smoothly, exhibiting the harmony that is justice. Then, a human being is onlyproperly said to be just when the three souls perform their proper functions in harmonywith each other, working in agreement for the good of the person as a whole. Inconclusion, it was found that the education of the guardians was necessary to keep thecity running and with their education you must devote their lives to persue the commongoals and good of the city. Once the individual and the other individuals in the society orcity were working in complete harmony only then would the circle be complete andevery...
