Plato and Equality for Women across Social Class

Revista de Filosofia Antiga

Coleen Patricia Zoller¹ 

[1] Susquehanna University. United States;

关键词: Plato;    Equality;    Women;   

DOI  :  10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v15i1p35-62

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This essay will marshal evidence for Plato’s extension of equal education and professional opportunity to all women, including artisan women who are not his ideal city’s philosopher-queens. I examine the explicit commentary in the Republic, Timaeus, and Laws about women in artisan professions, and I link it together with the three of the core principles advanced in the Republic, particularly (1) the principle of specialization (R. 369b-370c), (2) the principle of irrelevant reproductive differences (R. 454b-e, 456b), and (3) the principle of children’s potential (R. 415a-c, 423c-d) that arises from the myth of metals. Plato uses his Socrates and the Athenian to argue against gender discrimination because it violates these principles. Plato offering a theory of equal opportunity for women across all classes ought to be highlighted as one of the central achievements of the Republic.

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