Plato quote - trying to find source

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10-13-2006, 11:01 PM
rbassilian

Plato quote - trying to find source

In one of his dialogues, Plato said something to the extent that women prefer democracy, and the acceptance of all ideas as equal in one big "quilt" (his actual word) but that it really doesn't explain reality. Does anybody out there know what I'm talking about? This has frustrated the heck out of me for a long time now.

I looked in Republic but I couldn't find it.
10-14-2006, 02:28 AM
jon1jt

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Originally Posted by rbassilian

In one of his dialogues, Plato said something to the extent that women prefer democracy, and the acceptance of all ideas as equal in one big "quilt" (his actual word) but that it really doesn't explain reality. Does anybody out there know what I'm talking about? This has frustrated the heck out of me for a long time now.

I looked in Republic but I couldn't find it.

your question is really unclear and i'm not sure you're know what you're asking. he speaks of the role of women in the Republic in the context of his theory of three waves: 1) abolition of family; 2) philosophers must rule; 3) equality of women.
10-14-2006, 03:05 AM
rbassilian

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Originally Posted by jon1jt

your question is really unclear and i'm not sure you're know what you're asking. he speaks of the role of women in the Republic in the context of his theory of three waves: 1) abolition of family; 2) philosophers must rule; 3) equality of women.

I'd searched the Republic and I didn't find it in there, so I don't think it was in the Republic. It wasn't so much a comment about women but a comment about knowledge and ideas, that all ideas are not equal. His quip about all philosophies are equal being a womanish idea was just his way of disparaging that concept.