scuss as justice. He further elaborated with stating a need for secondary and tertiary level workers such as merchants and ship-owners. He also stressed a need for a marketplace and an exchange currency. This mode of thinking is admirable for it was ages before Christ that someone had conjured the thought while we have been engaging in the barter trade system thousands of years after. After focusing on the economic aspect, he then emphasized the need for soldiers, an army of men to protect the interests of the state from insatiable invaders.
             Next emerges the question on who must rule the state. Socrates speaks of a leader with an inborn capacity to rule, not to mention that he must altogether be elder since it is only right that elders exercise authority over the young. The ruler too, must possess the right source of intelligence, a special concern that loses him to the commonwealth. He must possess that sense to uphold the good and protect it. A child precociously manifesting leadership qualities must be given the highest standard of education and must be reared in a righteous manner of living meaning an ascetic life devoid of any form of luxury that could deter him from gearing towards his destined role. Once seated, a ruler must not own a home apart from what is open to the rest of the community, not land, nor ornaments, vessels, access to gold and silver, and like all the rest not a wife nor children. His pay will be meals just adequate for a man who must dutifully temper his appetite.
             Adeimantus afterwards interfered with a question on the unhappiness of the ruler, how it would not be at all any different from living in prison. Socrates however, explained that even the slightest inch over the proper sustenance would render the ruler an unholy one and would prevent his fidelity to his duty. Moreover, he added that by this, we are securing the greatest possible happiness for the entire community, not merely that of an individu...