Today, I enjoyed reading the book, and found interesting conversation in it.

First, Socrates and Graucon, Plato's older brother, mention gender role. It is interesting because the problem is always a centre of concern among people in modern world as well as in Ancient Greece. They says each one has to do the one job for which he was naturally suited despite of sex. Thus, women can share by nature any jobs because the various natural capasities are distributed between men and women.

Second, they lay down the prohibition of privatization. They confirm that it is the greatest thing for a city to bind it together. How it can be come true is "sharing pleasure and pain bind it together when all the citizens feel more or less the same joy or pain at the same gains or looses."
So, if people are going to real gurdians, they should not have private houses, land, or any other posession. From this, I came to know the meaning of sharing in the public.

Misaki