Father’s Day Without Factions: Plato’s Theory of Communal Parenting

The father of philosophy sought to reconfigure society by engineering cooperation into humanity’s most fundamental institution

Celebrating Father’s Day always reminds me of Plato’s Republic.

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Owner/Editor of Plato’s Gymnasium. I write about philosophy, politics, climate change, culture, religion, and more. https://medium.com/platos-gymnasium