Plato_And_Aristotle_On_Women_And_Society

Plato And Aristotle On Women And Society In The Politics, Aristotle devotes much of the text to criticizing many of Plato’s views contained in Republic. These criticisms range from the over-unified state to the perpetual happiness of Plato’s farming and merchant class including every notion of Plato’s in between. However, Plato did not right Republic to tell the ancient world what government should be like. He wrote it to say something about morality and goodness. As with many readers of Republic, Aristotle misunderstands the nature and purpose of Plato’s text. To the reader, many of Plato’s ideas appear radical and rather unorthodox and even contradicting, and are quite obviously satirical. When one reads Republic in this way, he or she may be accustomed to ignoring Plato’s messages. Sure, Plato was attempting a stab at humor, however, that does necessarily imply all of his ideas with respect to community structure are necessarily bad or wrong. A clear example of this is women’s role in the community. Plato, of course, proposes that women, while being inferior to men, shall still participate in the same professions and activities that men do. This sentiment is further supported by ideas proposed in The Laws. plato, women, men, plato’s, aristotle, republic, inferior, both, physical, society, shall, nature, world, while, same, politics, ideas, equal, being, about, war, state, side, says, roles, role, laws, girls, education, children, certain, boys, way, undoubtedly