Family, Polity & Unity: Aristotle on Socrates' Community of Wives

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It is possible that the current debate over the role of women in society would profit from a recollection of Aristotle's reasoning in opposing Socrates' radical attack on the family. As Professor Saxonhouse explains below, Aristotle values the family because it provides a model of unity despite diversities such as those one may encounter in the polity, because love for the city can come only after one has learned to love specific others in the family, and because a conception of the public realm cannot develop until one has understood the private domain-what is one's own.

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