ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Plato's understanding of the relationship between philosophy and politics. Plato's Republic lends explores for desirability and feasibility criteria and it seems to present a standard model of utopianism. The ideal city Plato describes Kallipolis its educational system, its class structure, and the organization of its rulers' life constitute the substantive content of his desirability criteria. It focuses on the procedure Plato's characters adopt for specifying the features of the ideal model. Plato maintains that actual arrangements should not be considered as relevant feasibility constraints and he is available to recommend and he does recommend options that are in contrast with currently held beliefs or costumes and whose realization would require the modification of actual social or political practices. Realistic utopianism and utopianism assign political philosophy with a practical function, tough they understand political philosophy's practical role differently. Realistic utopianism attributes political philosophy with an immediate practical function.
