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The woman question in Plato's Republic /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Townsend, Mary (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.