![]() ![]() And diversity has no place in this other than the fact that people have different skills which all have to be coordinated to a single end. ![]() So this metaphor really depends upon there being a closed society before we can start thinking about how to manage it. Everybody there is somehow there without any possibility of escape or any possibility of joining that society and they're in precarious circumstances so they need somehow a system of authority. Now this particular metaphor for a society, the ship of state, suggests that what we have in the real world in every society is a kind of a closed society with a purpose or a direction to go. It means putting their lives in the hands of a captain or a commander. But on the open sea people don't really have much choice but to put their lives into the hands of those who know how to navigate, to know how to run a ship. The way to think about a society Plato suggests is to think of it as a ship. ![]() One is a very old metaphor which you'll find in Plato's Republic and this is the metaphor of the ship of state. CHANDRAN KUKATHAS: Looking over the history of thinking about metaphors to describe a good society I felt there were two metaphors that dominated with which I was unhappy. ![]()
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