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Virtue Without Gender in Socrates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Patricia Ward Scaltsas
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Abstract

In this paper I argue that Socrates believed that there is no distinction between man's virtue and woman's virtue and that there is no difference in the achievement of virtue between men and women. My analysis shows Plato's position on the moral equality of guardian women and men in the Republic to be a continuation of the Socratic position of nongendered virtue. I thus disagree with Spelman's recent interpretation of the Republic on this issue.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , Summer 1992 , pp. 126 - 137
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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