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This 5 page paper examines Plato's Republic and first looks at the concept of justice. Then, how he portrays women is the focus of this paper which argues that while he saw women as being capable of more than society gives them credit, The Republic is still rather sexist material. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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be an implementation of law and order. To attain justice, murderers and thieves must get their due. In fact, Plato would certainly agree with this sentient. In the Republic, he
provides a paradigm that goes against democracy and vies for autocracy (Honderich, 1995). There is a sense that people must be censored and in the end, for Plato, democracy is
not equated with happiness anyway (Honderich, 1995). This is a position that emanates from the infamous cave allegory. In the allegory, humans are born and live in a cave, but
they are chained and shackled (Plato, 1992). They can see light only in the distance (Plato, 1992). In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It
is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans only having a slight knowledge of reality, one can take Platos form theory a step
further. As applied to a concept of justice, Plato rationalizes the need for a higher authority and the idea that humans can only police themselves to an extent. Many
in todays day and age would differ with Plato on his ideas about justice and how society should be ordered. Can a just society exist without democracy? Many theorists today
would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that merits of freedom today, there is another issue at hand. When focusing on how Plato viewed the female, there
is even more controversy. Not only did Plato see men as needing help in determining their fate, but he saw women as even more needy. Certainly, feminists would not agree
with Platos ideas about women, despite the fact that they were quite enlightened for the time period. There are gender divides in The Republic which render women as weak
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