PHIL1070 Chapter Notes - Chapter Book 5: Glaucon, Polemarchus
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Socrates" view of women in the city of speech is progressive for his time because he. Why or why not? feels they have enough ability to do the same things as men (although not quite as well). It was almost as if he overlooked the difference between men and women rather than just overlooking the mention of women because they weren"t important. His willingness to call on everyone to throw out their conception of the way women should practice gymnastics and their ability to do so really highlights his belief in women"s abilities at least for the time. He tells glaucon, it is permissible for us to ask ourselves whether the nature of the bald and the longhaired is the same or opposite. And when we agree that it is opposite, if bald men are shoemakers, we won"t let the long haired ones be shoemakers (plato 454c).
