Platonist women /
This Element examines the roles and activities of women and their contributions to the Platonic tradition from Plato's time-fourth century BCE through to the sixth century CE. Drawing on recent research on female agency, gender studies and the connections between ancient philosophy and religiou...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements on women in the history of philosophy.
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| Summary: | This Element examines the roles and activities of women and their contributions to the Platonic tradition from Plato's time-fourth century BCE through to the sixth century CE. Drawing on recent research on female agency, gender studies and the connections between ancient philosophy and religious traditions, this Element reassesses the multi-faceted roles of women within Platonism. Methodologically, any assessment of ancient women philosophers must consider the contexts of the production, transmission and (partial) survival of the range of evidence attesting to their activities, and the historical minimization or elision of women's intellectual contributions within the western philosophical tradition, science and the academy. As such, this Element argues that the existing evidence allows us to glimpse a much wider pattern of female philosophical and intellectual activity within the Platonic tradition and that we should be careful not to underestimate or minimize the significance of ancient women within the history of Platonism. |
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| Physical Description: | 87 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [78]-87). |
| ISBN: | 1009538853 9781009538855 9781009158909 1009158902 |