Comparison Between Rousseau and Plato

I destine Rousseaus most effective criticism of Platos is on the im handssity of family. Both philosophers learn opposing views on this issue however I tend to agree with Rousseaus view on family mostly because it is more reasonable than Platos. Rousseau also seemed more interested that people enjoy flavor whereas Plato seemed too tied down with the idea of making the world just, that he forgot about individual happiness. According to Plato there should be no such(prenominal) thing as family. Instead we should all be men innate(p) of the earth.Every sensation fit to Plato should think themselves to be everyone elses brother or sister. He thinks that tiddlerren should be removed from the mother upon birth so no fastener is made between mother and child. In speaking of peoples education and lift Plato writes If by being well educated they become sensible men, theyll considerably see to all this and everything else we are now leaving out-that the possession of women, marriag e, and genteelness of children must as far as possible be pose according to the proverb that friends have all things in common. (423e)Again he reiterates the idea of having all things in common when he writes All these women are to belong to all these men in common, and no woman is to give delegacy privately with any man. And the children, in their turn, result be common, and neither give a parent know his own offspring, nor a child his parent. (457d) Rousseau unwaveringly disagrees with Platos view on family. He thinks that having strong family values is the account to becoming a good citizen. Since Rousseau is all about taking the instinctive approach to education, his view on family values make sense. Family is quite patently in accordance with the laws of nature.A mother gives birth to her child and according to Rousseau it is tho inhering for the mother to sop up the child herself. That is the first natural bond that takes place within the family thus it is necessa ry in forming a close family unit. This is seen on page forty-six when he writes But allow mothers deign to nurse their children, morals will reform themselves, natures sentiments will be awakened in every heart, the state will be repeopled. If you stop here this goes completely against Platos belief that only certain women are made to be nurses and therefore only those women should nurse children.But Rousseau goes on to say Thus, from the correction of this single abuse would currently result a general reform nature would soon have reclaimed all its rights. Let women once again become mothers, men will soon become fathers and husbands again. Maybe Rousseau exaggerates this idea that by mothers care for their children family values will be set in place. But to an utmost I think this is true, because it is the first way a mother contribute care for her child, and by having someone else do it for her she is giving up this spiritual bond a mother should have with her child.Rous seau says We are born weak, we emergency strength we are born totally unprovided, we need aid we are born stupid we need judgment. Everything we do not have at birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education. (pg. 38) This education no matter how you look at it starts in the home, and with the family. If a child is to grow someone needs to be there to quarter them. And without a proper family a child will never be educated properly. Rousseaus theory on family is much more existent than Platos.Without having family values or even knowing who your real family is how is one hypothetical to learn to erotic love and care for one another? If we lived as Plato would manage we would not know what it means to have a close family because everyone would literally be considered your family. There is no way that you would develop the same emotion of love as you would by living in a family as most know it today. Or family in the sense that Rousseau writes about. Plato w as more concerned with the city being just then the individual, so in that scope his wanting to eradicate the natural family makes since.But his education follows that everyone be a professional at one trade. In my opinion that is no way to live life. To spend your whole life perfecting one thing, and never experiencing what it is to love. Rousseau took a much different approach believing that education was accomplished through with(predicate) centering on each person individually. The way a child is raised quite obviously affects who they are when they grow up. If they grow up in a family with strong values children learn if nothing else how to love and respect others. By learning these values ideally they will one day pass the lessons along to a family of their own.