The happiness of the state, Socrates reiterates, consists in the happiness instilled in each individual member of the classes from his having functioned well at his appointed task, performing his job well. Socrates insists that happiness does not consist in the trappings of material wealth the happy life does not consist, as some might suppose, in a life of revelry and festivity. Socrates reminds us at this point that the original intent of this aspect of the creation of the ideal state was (and remains) a state where justice might flourish and the whole of the citizenry might be happy. The Guardians, Adeimantus remarks, seem to be more like mercenaries than honored citizens of the state. Because Socrates has now divided the Guardians into two classes (rulers and auxiliaries), Adeimantus says that it occurs to him that the Guardians will not be very happy, in that they will by definition be precluded from material possessions, or the method whereby to procure those material possessions (money).
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