Cropsey, Joseph, "The Whole as Setting for Man: On Plato's Timaeus," Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 17, no. 2 (Winter 1989-90), 165-92.

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Plato’s Timaeus brings together Socrates and three of the four people who had requested, and received, on the preceding day, an account by him of his views on the polity. The review that Socrates gives “today” of the account that he gave “yesterday” presents the barest sketch of a portion of the Republic: division of labor resulting in a warrior class that is good to friends and harmful to enemies (acting on a definition of justice proposed and rejected in the Republic); gymnastic and music education for such guardians; their renunciation of wealth in favor of community and virtue; masculinization of women and their admission to all activities in the city; dissolution of the family; a eugenic arrangement, falsely put forth as a lottery, by which the authorities will procure the mating of good with their kind and bad with theirs, and the continuing promotion and demotion of citizens between the classes of good and bad (evidently made necessary by the predictable failure of the predictive eugenic device).

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