Question

In this excerpt from The Republic, Plato is supporting the claim that a luxurious state requires more resources than a healthy
state. In a well-constructed paragraph, evaluate the validity of the claim based on the strategy you have learned. Also point
out and explain any rhetorical appeals or devices that Plato uses.
"Now will the city have to fill and swell with a multitude of callings which are not required by any tural want, such as the
whole tribe of hunters and actors, of whom one large class have to do with forms and colours; another will be the votaries of
music-poets and their attendant train of rhapsodists, players, dancers, contractors; also makers of divers kinds of articles,
including women's dresses. And we shall want more servants. Will not tutors be also in request, and nurses wet and dry,
tirewomen and barbers, as well as confectioners and cooks; and swineherds, too, who were not needed and therefore had
no place in the former edition of our State, but are needed now?"
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Answer 1

It is correct to state that a luxurious state requires more resources than a healthy state. Hence, Plato's assertion or claim is correct.

What is a luxurious state?

According to Plato, a Luxurious state is one that has overstepped the limits of it's necessities.

In this own words, a Luxurious state:

• can only exist by the seizure of neighboring lands and consequently
• must create an army to defend those lands and the acquired city’s wealth. Hence, the additional expenses.

What are the Rhetorical Appeals that Plato uses?

The Rhetorical Appeals that Plato uses is :

Logos - Appeal to rationality. The textual evidence that supports this is:

""Now will the city have to fill and swell with a multitude of callings which are not required by any tural want, such as the whole tribe of hunters and actors, of whom one large class have to do with forms and colors; another will be the votaries of music-poets and their attendant train of rhapsodists, players, dancers, contractors; also makers of divers kinds of articles, including women's dresses..."

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