cused upon this issue is necessary. In order to assure a candidate worthy of presiding as a king over this best of all cities, a rigorous education program is enforced. After passing through a great many challenges, including warfare, gymnastic, mathematic and dialectic, the qualified individuals in the ruling sector were able to begin ruling at the age of fifty years old. The citizens living in the city were all instructed as to their common birth from the earth, where gold metal was mixed with those destined to be rulers, silver into auxiliaries, and iron and bronze into the artisans, before the moment of creation . In this way those in the ruling class, the philosophers ruling the state, were elevated to a higher stature by nature of birth and training, all in order to rule and serve the people.
             Within Plato's vision of the ideal society the entire state, composed of artisans, guardians and rulers, is all organized in order to produce the greatest amount of happiness for each person in the state. One
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