プラトン『国家』ニオケル「女性ノ劇」ノ射程

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In the books 5-7 of the Republic Plato argues for three paradoxical proposals in order to establish his own ideal city.Among these suggestions,called "three waves",the sharing of women and children is shocking,even abhorrent to us.In this paper I do not try to remove this abhorrence,but to understand as deeply as possible "the female drama" as a whole,which consists of two proposals,i.e., the equality of women with men in education and work,and the sharing of women and children.In section one by reading carefully the introduction to the "female drama" I point out that the nature,the significance of which Plato emphasizes when he argues the equality of women with men,can be interpreted as either the human nature or the nature that the guardians and the auxiliaries,called the "dogs" by Plato, of the ideal city must have.This makes us unable to decide whether Plato is a feminist or not.Then, in section two, after confirming on textual evidences that only the "dogs" should have their women and children in common, and on the historical background that in the contemporary Athens marriage was to maintain the properties of the families, I argue that Plato intends to keep in his ideal city the "true wealth"(virtues and intellect) by the rulers' sharing of the women and children in common. In the last section, I suggest that the "dogs" of the ideal city become "human beings" when they go out of the cave, philosophize and finally contemplate the form of the good. In my view, this is Plato's encouragement to us: do philosophy and know thyself.
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プラトン『国家』ニオケル「女性ノ劇」ノ射程

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