The answer to the qutn: Was Plato gay? And Socrat? Who unrstands philosophy....? Or give your answer to this qutn the tegory Psychology.
Contents:
- WAS PLATO THE ONLY GREEK GAY?
- PLATO DO COLORADO: WERE THE ANCIENT GREEKS MORN GAYS?
- WAS PLATO GAY? AND SOCRAT? WHO UNRSTANDS PHILOSOPHY….?
WAS PLATO THE ONLY GREEK GAY?
In the current ntroversi over homosexualy and gay rights, much attentn has been voted to the example of ancient Greece. Most llege stunts today do… * plato was gay *
In the current ntroversi over homosexualy and gay rights, much attentn has been voted to the example of ancient Greece. However, a vague imprsn also exists that, prr to s reprsn by Christiany, homosexualy enjoyed an untroubled, even honored, place classil tim, particularly Athens. For the purpose of ntemporary polemics, Athenian achievements polics, art, and philosophy have been voked as powerful proof that public acceptance of homosexualy, far om ditg a cle our civilizatn, might actually promise humanistic renewal.
The ancient Athenians celebrated homosexualy, and Athens, spe slavery and phallocracy, was one of the tly great human muni.
For example, the fall of 1993, distguished historians of ancient Greece and ement moral philosophers appeared a su brought by var dividuals (cludg celebri like Marta Navratilova) agast the state of Colorado for s nstutnal amendment which overturned municipal gay-rights ordanc.
PLATO DO COLORADO: WERE THE ANCIENT GREEKS MORN GAYS?
At stake was the qutn of whether legal rtrictns on homosexual nduct rt on a ratnal basis or, rather, are the product of mere prejudice or Christian theology, particularly, as Nsbm’s affidav put , “of a philosophil and moral tradn associated wh one branch of Christiany: Roman Catholicism.
WAS PLATO GAY? AND SOCRAT? WHO UNRSTANDS PHILOSOPHY….?
Neverthels, appears that when we ligate over homosexualy now, the nam of Socrat, Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, and Demosthen may bee — if not as mon our mouths as hoehold words — almost as mon as referenc to Ksey, He, and Masters and Johnson. A subject as plex as homosexualy and Greek society, when studied closely will, of urse, reveal subtleti and differenc that are not ptured by rough historil characterizatn. On the one hand, the current assumptn that homosexual sire was mon and accepted wh certa social class ancient Athens is right — anyone who has ever read Plato’s Symposium knows that.