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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
Mar 23, 2023 · Plato, one of the greatest philosophers in the Western tradition, had a complex and multifaceted view of women. On the one hand, he recognized their innate abilities and intelligence, and he even advocated for their equal participation in society.
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
On the question of women, Plato displays great originality, and, to some extent, considerable modernity, even if some aspects of his project contravene human rights. Historical reality in Plato’s Athens
- Luc Brisson
- 2012
Nov 19, 2015 · In Republic V, Plato presents the earliest systematic critique of the social and psychological state of women, offering an alternative vision of a political community in which women of the right intellectual disposition are entitled to rule and participate in philosophy.
Plato advocates the equal education of women in Book 5, but it would be inaccurate to think that Plato believed in the modern notion of equality between the sexes. He states in this section that women are inferior to men in all ways, including intellect.
Plato does not see women in the negative form all through the Republic . There are quite a number of positive remarks about women on their equality with men. For example, Plato is èonsistently, and sometimes violently, critical of the common Greek notion that the best teachers of virtue were either Athenian gentlemen or
