Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Social Science, Public Health and Education (SSPHE 2019)

Plato and Gender Equality in The Republic

Authors
Chen Ling, Yiheng Ding
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Chen Ling
Available Online 13 February 2020.
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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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Social Science, Public Health and Education (SSPHE 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
13 February 2020
ISBN
978-94-6252-904-5
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200205.041How to use a DOI?
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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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