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Plato's Dialectic on Woman: Equal, Therefore Inferior book cover

1st Edition

Plato's Dialectic on Woman Equal, Therefore Inferior

By Elena Blair Copyright 2012
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge
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With the birth of the feminist movement classicists, philosophers, educational experts, and psychologists, all challenged by the question of whether or not Plato was a feminist, began to examine Plato’s dialogues in search of his conception of woman. The possibility arose of a new focus affecting the view of texts written more than two thousand years in the past. And yet, in spite of the recent... Read more

Introduction: The State of the Question  Prologue: The Feminine Presence in the Dialogues. A Methodological Consideration  Part I: The Dramatic/Rhetorical Texts  1. Dramatic/Rhetorical Views of Woman  Part II: The Philosophical Texts  2. The Socratic Origin  3. Satirical Criticism of Simplistic Views of Equality  4. The Three Waves in the Analogy between City and Soul  5. The Logic of the First Wave  6. Thematic Transformation: the Cosmology of Woman in Timaeus  7. Solving the Puzzle of Woman in Laws  Part III: Plato’s Philosophy of Woman  8. Prolegomenon to the Results  9. Equal, Therefore Inferior: The Logic of Plato on Woman  10. Beyond Plato: the Groundwork for a Theory of Woman  Appendix to the Text: Greek Words on Women and the Feminine  Bibliography  Index

Biography

Elena Duvergès Blair is Associate Professor Emerita at Xavier University, USA.

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