PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Structural Analog, Theocracy
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451b)- as all goods among friends. : the discussion of this proposal involves three separate but related claims, each taken by plato as an integral part of the abolition of the family as a social institution. Women are to be treated on an equal footing with men. Traditional forms of marriage and the like be done away with in favor of a system of temporary sexual liaisons based on eugenic principles. Children and parents be separated from one another. Plato recognizes how radical his claims are as can be seen in the long and tentative prologue to their discussion 449a-451c. Women"s equality: the equality in question is that possessed by each member of the feverish. Abolition of marriage: plato takes it to follow from women"s equality that his contemporary greek marriage-system is inappropriate. 471c-473c: although plato is careful to point out that the non-realizabiltiy of the. In short, plato holds that a philosopher is one who loves the forms.