Woman Question in Platos Repubcb

This book 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, it argues that the in Republic dramatizes the reluctance of men to allow women into the public sphere and offers a deeply aporetic vision of women's nature and political position.

About the author

Mary Townsend is visiting assistant professor in the department of classical studies at Loyola University, New Orleans.

Summary

This book 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, it argues that the in Republic dramatizes the reluctance of men to allow women into the public sphere and offers a deeply aporetic vision of women's nature and political position.

Product details

• Authors: Townsend Mary, Mary Townsend
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.08.2017
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781498542692
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4269-2
• Subjects: Eros, Classics, Republic, Plato, Virtue, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Political Philosophy, Hunting, Guardians, Socrates, Leo Strauss, ancient philosophy, Classical Studies, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Women’s Studies, third wave, feminist philosophy, Glaucon, Seth Benardete, First Wave, thumos, Stanley Rosen, women and philosophy, Alan Bloom