The Academy Is My Favorite Philosophy
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Eikadistes -
August 27, 2021 at 10:34 AM -
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“'And the children thus born will be taken over by the officials appointed for this, men or women or both, since, I take it, the official posts too are common to women and men. [460c] The offspring of the good, I suppose, they will take to the pen or créche, to certain nurses who live apart in a quarter of the city, but the offspring of the inferior, and any of those of the other sort who are born defective, they will properly dispose of in secret, so that no one will know what has become of them.”' (Plato, The Republic, Book 5)