human beings up based on their innate intelligence, strength, and courage. Those
who are not overly bright, or strong, or brave, are suited to various productive
professions: farming, smithing, building, etc. Those who are somewhat bright,
strong, and especially courageous are suited to defensive and policing
professions. Those who are extraordinarily intelligent, virtuous, and brave, are
suited to run the state itself; that is, Plato's ideal state is an aristocracy, a Greek word which means "rule
by the best." The lower end of human society, which, as far as Plato is
concerned, consists of an overwhelming majority of people in a state, he calls
the "producers