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- Plato’s treatments of women are perplexing because they seem to justify both gender equality and female subordination.
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Plato’s treatments of women are perplexing because they seem to justify both gender equality and female subordination. Faced with evidence of both, scholars typically ask whether Plato promotes gender equality or patriarchy rather than what a particular treatment of women means in the dialogue to which it belongs.
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By law women in ancient Greece were hereditary citizens in the same way as their male counterparts, that is, they were citizens if both parents had been citizens. They also equally enjoyed the protection of the laws , so in that sense they had legal rights . But they could do nothing to assert these rights. In court-cases women had to be represente...
In classical Greece women had no political rights at all: they were not admitted to the assembly, they could not sit in court, and they could not serve in any of the offices. The political scene was exclusively male. Aristophanes’ Ekklesiazousai, the Assembly of Women, depicts a never-never-land. In view of the complete absence of woman from the po...
There is more information in the Lawson social than on legal and political rights. First of all, Plato pleads for mandatory public education for both boys and girls (VII 804e-806c). Public education does not just consist in reading and writing and such, but also in sports: in riding, gymnastics, archery, javelin-throwing and all else—and girls are ...
- Dorothea Frede
- Dorothea.Frede@uni-hamburg.de
- 2018
Nov 19, 2015 · In an important study of women in the Laws, Levin argues that Plato’s treatment of women is determined by a theory of nature (physis).
gender equality or patriarchy rather than what a particular treatment of women means in the dialogue to which it belongs. This article seeks to clarify Plato’s treatment of women by focusing on women’s education in the Laws and analyzing it in the context of his Athenian Stranger’s attempt at
- Linda R. Rabieh
- 2020
So why, if he is not concerned with justice between the sexes, is Plato arguing for treating women as equals in this peculiar set of arrangements? The answer is in the whole set of institutions that define the guardian class.
Plato's argument for gender equality rests on a distinctive view of human nature, and his elaboration of the consequences of pursuing gender equality reveal that a price would have to be paid for it that few are willing to accept.
Mar 21, 2024 · According to a long history of interpretation, Plato's treatment of women in the Republic operates on two relatively straightforward principles: eradicate femininity from the city as much as possible and make guardian women more like men.
