The very meaning of the word utopia proves this to be the case. However, we can and have taken Socratic approaches to our own societies that are still existent today. Division of labor, as we can note, is very real. Each individual in our society specializes in work that allows him or her to then trade the output for other goods in a mutually beneficial relationship with the rest of society. Taxpayers provide for our soldiers, thereby allowing our warriors to, at least in theory, focus on protecting the public. And on paper, our elected officials are learned men whose role it is to guide society in a manner that is in everyone’s interest, even if it is not in their own personal
The very meaning of the word utopia proves this to be the case. However, we can and have taken Socratic approaches to our own societies that are still existent today. Division of labor, as we can note, is very real. Each individual in our society specializes in work that allows him or her to then trade the output for other goods in a mutually beneficial relationship with the rest of society. Taxpayers provide for our soldiers, thereby allowing our warriors to, at least in theory, focus on protecting the public. And on paper, our elected officials are learned men whose role it is to guide society in a manner that is in everyone’s interest, even if it is not in their own personal