Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET December 2014 Political Science
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Choose the correct answer using the codes given below.
Assertion (A): For Plato, great diversity of wealth was inconsistent with good government.
Reason (R): He saw no way to abolish the evil except by abolishing wealth itself, so far as soldiers and rulers are concerned.
ABoth A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A ✓ Correct
BBoth A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
CA is true, but R is false
DA is false, but R is true
Correct answer: (A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A — Both the assertion and the reason are true, and the reason correctly explains the assertion, since Plato's only cure for the inequality of wealth is to abolish private property for…
Explanation
★Both the assertion and the reason are true, and the reason correctly explains the assertion, since Plato's only cure for the inequality of wealth is to abolish private property for the rulers and soldiers themselves.
★This is Plato's communism of property and families, applied only to the guardian classes, the rulers and the auxiliaries, and developed in the fifth part of the Republic.
★Plato holds that property excites the appetite, so guardians who owned wealth and families would set private gain above the common good.
★To prevent corruption he gives the guardians common dining, common property, and common families, while the producing class keeps property and family.
★The argument follows from his idea of justice as each part doing its own work, and removing property keeps the rational and spirited classes undistracted.
★Aristotle's objection in the Politics, that common ownership weakens care and destroys the virtue of liberality, is the standard counter, while the Laws later permits regulated private property.
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