Aristotle on sexual difference : metaphysics, biology, politics
Marguerite Deslauriers
Bok · Engelsk · 2022
| Omfang | xvi, 354 sider
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| Opplysninger | "The ambivalence Aristotle displays in the discussions of sexual difference is evident. He believes and assumes that females and women are inferior to males and men, but his arguments are directed at demonstrating that the female sex is valuable to an animal species, and that women are valuable to the household and to the political community. Those arguments depend on his understanding of the structures in which sexual difference occurs: both the male-female couple in biological contexts, and the household in political contexts. The sexes, and the differences between the sexes, are good ultimately because they are necessary for these structures which are themselves good. In representing sexual difference as a positive feature, both in the context of reproduction and in the context of political life, Aristotle is disputing the largely negative assessment of it in the works of his predecessors. And in arguing for the benefit of females and women to animal species and to political communities Aristotle distinguishes his position on the sexes, and on women in particular, from that of more simple-minded misogynists in the history of philosophy. Those features of females and women that constitute their deficiencies relative to males and men are also positive qualities on Aristotle's account, and that is evident once we consider females in the context of the generative couple, and women in the context of the household as a natural structure"--
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| ISBN | 9780197606186
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