Values contribute to people's actions in today's society. Society itself has a common set of values that many people agree on. In today's world, these values are commonly known as laws. In The Republic, Plato divides the city into specific classes: gold, silver, as well as bronze and iron souls. Each class is chosen to have a specific value. Plato believes that wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice join together to make up The Republic. However, Plato also believes that these values by themselves do not make up a Utopian society. Therefore, a combination of these four values in each person would be ideal to create a perfect society.
             The first of the values is wisdom. Plato defines wisdom as the knowledge of the city as a whole. Of the classes named earlier, only the gold souls posses the value of wisdom. The gold souls are the only class whose knowledge goes past the plain facts to the level of true wisdom.
             The second value that Plato defines is courage. Courage is the preservation of the opinion produced by law, through knowing about what is terrible, and what is good. Courage can be found in the silver souls. Plato then states that a precise training of these souls will occur with physical activity and playing certain music. He wants a good upbringing to make the right ideas permanent in them, so that pleasure, fear, or death would not take those right ideas from their souls. Then, after truly understanding of what is really dangerous to a man, they knew their only task was to show courage.
             The third value in Plato's republic is moderation. Plato explains moderation as the kind of harmony between the bronze and silver souls. Moderation is the ability to control desires and to be the master of ones self. There are two things at work in a man's heart, good and bad. The bad can overwhelm the good, if the people have bad training or keep bad company. The bad force the
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