The woman question in Plato's Republic

The woman question in Plato's Republic / Mary Townsend.

In this book, Mary Townsend proposes that, contrary to the current scholarship on Plato's Republic, Socrates does not in fact set out to prove the weakness of women. Rather, she argues that close attention to the drama of the Republic reveals that Plato dramatizes the reluctance of men to allow...

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Main Author: Townsend, Mary (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
Subjects:
Plato. > Republic.
Plato > v427-v347 > Res publica
Börngen, ...
Republic (Plato)
Sex role > Philosophy.
Women > Political activity > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Sex role > Philosophy
Frauenemanzipation
Soziale Stellung
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Table of Contents:
  • The action of the argument
  • The drama of Glaucon's aporia
  • The conflict of Thumos and Eros in the hunt
  • Taming the hunting women
  • Women and men, exercising naked, together
  • Hera, Artemis, and the political problem of privacy
  • Socrates' proposal of robes of virtue
  • The tragedy of the philosopher-king
  • Woman is a political animal.

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