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  1. Mar 8, 2002 · There Plato offers the first sustained discussion of the nature of justice (dikaiosune) and its relation to happiness, as a departure from three alternatives receiving varying degrees of attention. First, there is a traditionalist conception of justice (speaking the truth and paying your debts).

  2. Plato’s attitude to the emancipation of women has to be understood in the context of the complex moral and political theory in which it is embedded. His proposals on equality of political status and of educational opportunity are congenial to classical liberal opinion, while the abolition of the family aligns him with more radical feminist ...

  3. Jun 22, 2019 · Based on his writings in the Republic and most of the Dialogues, Plato was seemingly open to the potential equality of men and women. Plato believed in metempsychosis (essentially reincarnation), that the human soul was sexless and could change genders from life to life.

    • Andrea Borghini
  4. Nov 17, 2018 · Plato is commonly credited with a much more enlightened view concerning the equality of women and their political rights than Aristotle. This is due to the fact that he acknowledges, in the Republic, the possibility that women possess abilities that are equal to...

    • Dorothea Frede
    • Dorothea.Frede@uni-hamburg.de
    • 2018
  5. Feb 25, 2010 · The Gender Blindfold of Plato's Justice. Was Plato an Advocate of Women's Rights? Was He a Feminist?

  6. 'Why did Plato claim that justice meant inequality if, in general usage, it meant equality? To me the only likely reply seems to be that he wanted to make propaganda for his totalitarian state by persuading people that it was the 'just' state.'7 On the face of it, Plato offers at most a few extensional equiva

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  8. Sep 16, 2003 · The definition of justice is to be discovered by a process of elimination. If there are four virtues in the city, then justice must be the one that is left over after the other three have been identified.

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