Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato.
Both the community of property and the community of
families, as I am saying, tend to make them more truly
guardians; they will not tear the city in pieces by
differing about "mine" and "not mine;" each man
dragging any acquisition which he has made into a
separate house of his own, where he has a separate
wife and children and private pleasures and pains; but
all will be affected as far as may be by the same
pleasures and pains because they are all of one
opinion about what is near and dear to them, and
therefore they all tend towards a common end.
How does the use of abductive reasoning help build the
argument?
It shows how people are expected to act when
protecting their community.
It emphasizes how people can work together to
enjoy communal resources.
It demonstrates the importance of people having
private homes of their own.
It draws attention to the general structure of a
successful and stable family.