"The ideal state of Plato" meant for tool in a philosophical argument about things, what they thought important topics.

     

"The ideal state of Plato" meant for tool in a philosophical argument about things, what they thought important topics. 

When Plato introduced his "Ideal State" that man gave it for critics. He meant that people were allowed to discuss that model to rule nations and people. The ideal state means to demonstrate the power of authorities, and that indeed the highest-ranking soldiers had somebody who rules them. The thing is that the "Ideal State" was the tool. 

That tool meant for handling the relationship between the individual and the group. The difference between firm and state is that the state cannot kick people out of it. But if the firm would kick some person out, that means that the person is free to go to another workplace. 

As you see, every state and the part of it are a collection of individuals, who have their place in society. Or the entirety, what is called a state. So what the rulers must remember when they are giving orders? They should sometimes give carrot because if the only thing, that is given is a stick, the nation turns unhappy. 

The thing is similar when some person hangs carrot in front of the eyes of the mule, the mule would move forward because it expects that it would get the bite of carrot. It has the right to believe that when the work has done, it will get the gift, that promised to it as the price for a well-done job. 

If the job has been done, but the price has not been given the mule would be disappointed. And if the disappointment would happen too many times the mule would stop working. If the quality of the done work means nothing that means the mule would start to think, that it would not take the prize anyway and stops to wait for it. The promises of the prize are meanless because there is ever the prize.

Because there is no matter how the work was done that would bring the "who cares" attitude in the mind of that person is that there is no matter how the work is done. The thing is that mule is not stupid. It doesn't just know where the road is going. 

The controller would move carrot to the side, where the mule needs to turn, but the thing is that only the controller knows where they are going. And this gives the controller power to the mule. But otherwise, if the introductions for the travel are wrong, the mule doesn't know even that thing. The responsibility for the successful journey is in the hands of the controller. 

So is mule stupid? The answer is that if it doesn't know anything about the trip before it starts, it would not be stupid. It just doesn't know where is the end of the journey, because nobody told that to the mule.

Even Einstein himself could not complete the mission if nobody tells that man even that there is something, that Albert Einstein must do. So because that somebody denies knowledge or tools doesn't make another person stupid, because that other person cannot do the job without tools or the existence of the work ever told to that person. 

In this text, the carrot symbolizes the position that is promised for the hard work. The mule symbolizes creature what makes hard work, but what doesn't know where the road is going. For reaching something is the thing that makes us learn things and follow some very boring lectures. Life is not always easy, but hard work would make a person stronger. 

If we transfer this idea to the state, we must realize that every people must have access to the carrots. They must have the possibility to even send the application for the positions, what the carrots are symbolizing. People must know what kind of education is allowing them to get the position, and they are allowing us to want those positions.