About Socrates and his attitude to women

 The fact that women have been subjected to repression during almost the entire history of the world is today a recognized fact.

 My favorite philosopher from history, Socrates, was unusual in his Greece of antiquity. He lived and worked in Athens. He expressed himself as a true revolutionary in Plato's dialogue "REPUBLIC", where he pointed out that it is folly not to take advantage of all talents in a society when talented individuals are in short supply everywhere. Therefore talents should be recruited from all groups in society - including women.

 What about this quote from Socrates: Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

 Moreover, Socrates pointed out (in "REPUBLIC") that you can determine the maturity of a society by studying how that society treats its women. That Socrates was sentenced to death by the governing men of his Athens becomes even less surprising when you realize this.

 That we today have modern societies where the rights of women's are protected to a greater extent than ever before in the history of the world, is something we in the modern democratic societies should be proud of and prepared to defend. That very many politically correct people do not realize this is distressing. Have they learned nothing from our history? Or are they unaware (which is worse than deliberatly denying women their rights according to Socrates in Plato's dialogue "Hippias")?

 Is it time for citizens of the Western world to begin to defend themselves, their civilisation and their women against the prejudiced dogma of the old patriarch Athens and their followers from backward patriarch nations of today?

 There is a program on the Web TV where you can learn about the situation:

Women's power in world history

 A British BBC documentary series from 2015 UR Play.

 In the series "Women's power in world history" the BBC's TV host Amanda Foreman focuses on the role of women, from the cradle of civilization to modern times.

 Part 1 of 4. Civilization. Amanda Foreman travels to Turkey, Siberia and Greece and talks about the history of women in early settlements like Mesopotamia and ancient Greece. It is about the origin of patriarchy, women's power, and how and why the status of women decreased while humanity at large became richer. Foreman explores the world's first laws passed in Mesopotamia, where, issues relating to divorce, abortion and the use of the veil are made into written law. We also hear about the extraordinary women in history who like Enheduanna, the world's first among famous writers and Hatshepsut, the pharaoh of ancient Egypt.

See the program at (English spoken with Swedish subtitles):

http://urplay.se/program/193175-kvinnors-makt-i-varldshistorien

 This program confirms our ideas of philosophy about the craziness of the Patriarch of ancient Athens

Please check also:

http://axiom1b.blogspot.se/2015/03/from-socrates-1-curse-of-person-who.html

and

http://axiom1b.blogspot.se/2015/06/socrates-gossip-filter-gossip-slander.html

PS. I intend to also see the other three programs in the series, and perhaps even recommend them

 Also check how a "Modern Socratic Method" (dialectics) can be used to create a greater society at:

https://www.duga.se/ - use Google Translate

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