Immigration Policy” According To Plato

The issue of immigrants’ place in Western societies is still vital, and it is considered from various theoretical and axiological positions. The article attempts to look at these issues through the eyes of a classic of European philosophy, which is Plato. In ancient Greece, foreigners were approached rather with superiority; Greeks believed that the world is divided into them and barbarians. The same is true of Plato, who proposes many rules for treating „aliens” in his theory of the ideal state. These principles are based on the assumption that citizens and noncitizens (foreigners and slaves) cannot be treated equally in every respect.