This is something that has been on my mind from a few books ago, and it still could apply because the children are the future leaders of the society so this could be a problem. I have a hard time picturing the children of this society. It would probably help if we could draw a picture of the city and label everything and where the common people, leaders, and children would be, but I will do my best to explain and question. Socrates stated about the guardians on 457 d , “And the children, in their turn, will be in common, and neither will a parent know his own offspring, nor a child his parent.” So in this, the child will have to respect every one of the elders in the community because he/she sees them all as his/her parents, and they as their children.
The confusion comes with the children of the common people. I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure the children of the common people can distinguish who their parents are, and they shadow their parents in their work field. If this is true, I feel that the children of the guardians and the children of the common people are bound connect or run into each other somehow (if the guardians’ children are kept in a different part of the city) and then the children will notice that there is something missing in their life. If the guardian’s children find out that they do not have the same relations as the common people’s children have with their parents, they might feel a sort of separation anxiety or something missing in their life. I guess my question is ‘could this happen?’ or am I misreading something.
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