Socrates

Socrates Three Waves of the Republic In Book five of The Republic, Socrates further discusses the just city in which he is trying to use as a means to define justice. In his defining of the just city Socrates discusses three waves in which he attempts to explain the way the just city would function. The three waves are common wives and children, equality of the sexes, and the philosopher king. The three waves of the Republic are used in effort to explain away common practices, and to unify the people and the guardian class. The way the three waves do this is by eliminating jealousy and inequality in the social classes, and adding a greater level of knowledge and understanding in the ruling class. The first wave Socrates discusses is that of common wives and children. The goal of the first wave is to promote unity in the city as a whole. The reason for common wives and children is three fold. Not only does it remove jealousy from the guardian class, but the first wave also adds unity to the guardian class and leaders while producing loyalty and forgiveness within the class itself. This is done through the fact that city, socrates, philosopher, just, wave, class, wives, waves, three, king, common, children, people, person, justice, sexes, guardian, first, family, everyone, equal, work, while, unity, through, things, republic, reason, leaders, fact, every, equality, women, woman, towards, together