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The utopia of the ideal state Plato introduces valuable principles, which have lost today: the rule of reason, concern for the public to ensure responsible government and not interested in personal use of the charge against corruption in other political systems, the importance of education both in rulers and citizens, government involvement in the happiness of citizens, the equality of women relative to men ... but in turn we find reprehensible aspects Engativa and taking into account the risks of this totalitarian system. If everything is driven from power: private property, the family (spouse and children), issues of interest in the educational program ... we seem to be overriding individual liberty and subjected to the guidelines of the omniscience of the rulers in the name of Truth would control all the social thread. In our recent history we suffered various totalitarian regimes and in this sense we value freedom and personal autonomy over systems that can bring individuals to fascist leaders, dictatorial, communist, totalitarian, platonic ...

The passage before us pernetece discuss the book "X" of Plato's Republic.

Plato was a Greek philosopher of the fourth century BC C., instrumental in the history of Western philosophy. His main theory is the theory of ideas according to which reality, ontologically, is divided into two levels. On one side are the physical world that is plural, changing and imperfect and epistemological oconoce by the senses are able to obtain from it only opinion, and secondly would the world of ideas, ontologically perfect and imperfect model of the physical copies. Ideas are intangible realities, absolute, eternal, which exist independently of physical objects. Epistemological ideas are known by reason and science gives knowledge or episteme.

All Platonic philosophy should be interpreted in light of the theory of ideas. Thus, the Republic (dialogue belongs to this text) is a political dialogue but must be interpreted along the lines of the theory of ideas. It seeks to establish the ideal government. For Plato the ideal would be a state that govern right: the ruler of the Republic should be aware of true reality: ideas. We will only have a state fair, well organized and if their leader is not an ignoramus but a sage or philosopher who has transcended the physical world and has penetrated into the true reality is ideas.