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Book V from The Republic By Plato, (428—348? BCE) Greek
philosopher; disciple of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle
Translated by B. Jowett (1817—1893)
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The law, I said, which is the sequel of this and of all that
has preceded, is to the following effect,--'that the wives of our
guardians* are to be common**,
and their children are to be common, and no parent is to know his own child,
nor any child his parent.'
…The proper officers will take the offspring of the good parents to the
pen or fold (daycare), and there they will deposit them with certain nurses
who dwell in a separate quarter
…They will provide for their nurture, and will bring the mothers to
the fold (day care) when they are full of milk, taking the greatest possible
care that no mother recognizes her own child; and other wet-nurses
may be engaged if more are required. Care will also be taken that the
process of suckling shall not be protracted too long; and the mothers will
have no getting up at night or other trouble, but will hand over all this
sort of thing to the nurses and attendants.
You suppose the wives of our guardians to have a fine easy time of it when
they are having children.
Why, said I, and so they ought.
…Such is the scheme, Glaucon, according to which the guardians of our State
are to have their wives and families in common.
And now you would have the argument show that this community is consistent
with the rest of our polity, and also that nothing can be better--would you
not?
Yes, certainly.
* guardians = A proposed specialized
warrior class of people to rule the State.
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common = shared |
The City of the Sun (Civitas solis), by Tomasso Campanella,
1623
Account of an utopian society which is similar to Plato's Republic.
It is written in the form of a dialogue between a Grandmaster of
the Knights Hospitallers and a Genoese Sea-captain, his guest |
G. M. Tell me about their children.
Capt. When their women have brought forth children, they suckle and rear
them in temples set apart for all. They give milk for two years or more as
the physician orders. After that time the weaned child
is given into the charge of the mistresses, if it is a female, and to the
masters, if it is a male.
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We
(Мы,)
Written in 1920 by Yevgeny Zamyatin
(a.k.a. Evgeny Ivanovich Zamiatin)
1972 translation from the Russian by Mirra
Ginsburg
Twenty-First
Entry, p 107 |
“You know, I came to class today [she* works at the
Child-Rearing
Factory (daycare)] and found a caricature on the wall.
* The protagonist identifies her only as
"U..." |
We (Мы,)
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Thirty-Sixth
Entry, p 189 |
If
I had a mother, like the ancients: mine—yes, precisely—my mother. To
whom I would be—not the Builder of the Integral (spaceship), and not
number D-503*, and not a molecule of the One State, but a simple human
being—a piece of herself…
* In We, there are no names, only
alpha-numeric designations
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