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expositions-1776	none	Aristotelian Pluralism and Diversity: The Conditions for Civic Education and the Common Good	2014	22	.pdf	application/pdf	8777	611	56	Socratic Education This reliance upon the golden mean for education also explains Aristotle’s criticism of Plato’s Republic where Socrates prescribes a political unity that reduces the polis to the household and, thus, destroys the political community as such (Politics 1261a21–22).11 Socrates proposes that all citizens regard one another as siblings by sharing family life and property communally, which, in turn, would reconcile conflicts of interest that destroy political communities (Republic 464a4– c4). While speaking about how political communities should educate children for its own peculiar ends, Aristotle concludes that “the best character (ethos) is always a cause of a better political community (politeias)” (Politics 1137a16–17).	cache/expositions-1776.pdf	txt/expositions-1776.txt