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Assignment - Read - Susan Moller Okin: "Philosopher Queens and Private Wives: Plato on Women and the Family"
1. What is the role of Plato's view of property and its role in corruption? What is the solution to this problem that results in corruption?
2. According to Okin, what does Plato think will happen to the family with the communalization of property?
3. According to Okin, what is the association between private possession of women and corruption for Plato?
4. What is meant by adultery in ancient Greece?
5. What were the customs with regard to women?
6. Why is Plato's proposal control the intimate lives of his guardians viewed supposedly as impossible to enact when women's sexual lives have been restricted throughout history?
7. How was kinship ties expanded rather than obliterated in the guardian class?
8. Plato, in Laws, introduces the concept of the "second best city", and in he reinstates private property. What kinds of consequences does this have?