The Problem With Plato's Laws

In the Republic women can be rulers as well as men, but in Plato's laws they can't. Proclos deals with this question and his solution is to say that Plato's laws takes account more of human nature. So a proclos regards the ideal city of Plato's Republic as an absolute ideal. But he regards Plato's laws as a second degree ideal too. Which makes certain concessions exactly. And so we make some concessions to the fact that humans tend to want to have some private property. And they tend to wanting to have families. And then of course the concession also, maybe a typically Greek concession, that maybe women, so to speak, takes second place.