Plato and Gender Equality in The Republic

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10.2991/assehr.k.200205.041How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Plato, The Republic, gender equality, is-ought gap

Abstract

Plato’s The Republic is commonly perceived to be a foe of gender equality, but this perception is ill-founded. Many lines involving, from a modern view, contempt for women’s physical strength, mental capacity and potential for virtue are taken as evidence of Plato’s opposition to the ideal of gender equality. However, those lines are merely indications of Plato’s empirical rather than normative judgment. The is-ought gap warns of the insufficiency of the deduction from those putative pieces of evidence alone that Plato is against the ideal of gender equality.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chen Ling
AU  - Yiheng Ding
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/13
TI  - Plato and Gender Equality in The Republic
BT  - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Social Science, Public Health and Education (SSPHE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 194
EP  - 196
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200205.041
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200205.041
ID  - Ling2020
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