PHILOSOPHERS'STONE.PART 25

He then likened a state to human body that has similar three parts,rulers,auxilliaries and labourers or farmers.Plato's ideal state has been likened to the hindu caste system in which everybody has a role for the good of the whole.Prior to Plato's time hindu's has similar tripartite structure between auxilliary caste,or priest caste,the warrior and then labourers'castes.It was like Plato's totalitarian state and his viewsthat warriors and rulers should nothave private property or not allowed family life would consideredalien to mordern times where lucre is god.Plato wrote the Laws in which he considered constitutional state as nextbest stateand reintroducedboth private property and familybond.He calls for education of women.Consideringthe time,he lived,scholars arefond of the fact hehad a positiveview about women.For a state to refuse to train woman is like a man that trains only his right hand.In the Dialogue symposium,he reserves a woman the legendary priestess Diotima,the honour of giving Socrates insight.