Gender and Rhetoric in Plato's Political Thought

ISBN-13: 9780521808521 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 176 str.

Michael Shalom Kochin

Opis

This study explores the relation between Plato's Republic and Laws on the set of issues that the Laws marks out as fundamental to the comparison--the unity of the virtues, the role of women, and the place of the family. Plato aims to persuade men to abandon the views of the good life that Greek cities and their laws inculcate as the only life worth living for those who would be real men and not effeminate weaklings.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'The most compelling parts of the analysis interweave the topics of war, family, and sexuality with Plato's examination of the traditional Greek ideals of masculinity.' Polis

Spis treści

1. Gender and the virtues; 2. Plato's psychopolitical justifications; 3. Manliness and tyranny; 4. Justice and the ungendered self; 5. The rule of law and the goodness of the city; 6. Patriarchy and philosophy; Conclusion: from Plato back to politics.