Reed, Carol White, Julie Murphy, George Lucas, and the editors of thisjournal for their criticisms of various drafts of this paper, and to Gregory Vlasms for first arousing my interest in this topic and for making numerous suggestions that have helped clarify my thinking about it. Other dialogues of his middle period support the view that Plato was a sexual egalitarian: 5 the Meno, for example, assigns the same virtues to i am indebted to David Keyt, Charles M. Nature provides no such equality in Aristotle in the Politics he flatly declares, "as regards the sexes, the male is by nature superior and the female inferior, the male ruler and the female subject ''4 (1254b13-14). Plato's position in the Republic is based upon his view that "women and men have the same nature in respect to the guardianship of the state, save insofar as the one is weaker and the other is stronger ''~ (456A).
Only one generation later Aristotle, in his Politics, returns women to their traditional roles in the home, subserving men. SMITH hN ThE Republic, Plato argues that women (at least those in the upper classes ~) must be assigned social roles in the ideal state equal (or approximat&) to those of men. Plato and Aristotle on the Nature of Women NICHOLAS D.
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