Aristotle on Sexual Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aristotle on Sexual Difference write by Marguerite Deslauriers. This book was released on 2022-02-10. Aristotle on Sexual Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aristotle's remarks about the differences between the sexes have become infamous for their implications for the social status of women. In his observations on female biology, Aristotle claims that the female nature is, as it were, a deformity. In describing women's role in the public sphere, he claims that women are naturally subordinate because, while they possess a deliberative faculty, that capacity is without authority. While both claims express the inferiority of female bodies/women relative to male bodies/men, it is not self-evident that the defects Aristotle identifies in female biology have cognitive or moral manifestations that would justify the rule of men over women in political life. Marguerite Deslauriers here aims to construct a coherent picture of Aristotle's views on sexual and gender-based difference from these remarks and to show the extent to which his views on female biology and women's role in politics are causally connected. Without exculpating Aristotle from charges of misogyny, Deslauriers contextualizes his explanations of the role and origin of female animals in his biology and the role of women in his political philosophy; she shows how Aristotle developed these views and the importance they hold for his wider philosophical commitments. She then explores how Aristotle might have seen the link between the physiology of sex and the bearing it has on political life. She ultimately argues that in Aristotle's conception of sexual difference in biology and politics, there is a tension between his view of the inferiority of female bodies and women and his commitment to the idea that females and women are valuable both for generation and for the political life characteristic of human beings. In this tension she finds a difference between Aristotle and his predecessors: while previous accounts associate sexual difference with affliction, Aristotle sees sexual difference as a benefit, both to a species and a political community. This volume will be of interest to philosophers and students interested in ancient philosophy, feminist philosophy, as well as those studying moral and political philosophy.
Aristotle on Female Animals
Aristotle on Female Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aristotle on Female Animals write by Sophia M. Connell. This book was released on 2016-01-14. Aristotle on Female Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyses the female in Aristotle's biology, leading to a reassessment of his hylomorphism, scientific methodology and psychology.
An Ethics of Sexual Difference
An Ethics of Sexual Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Ethics of Sexual Difference write by Luce Irigaray. This book was released on 2005-02-01. An Ethics of Sexual Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Luce Irigaray (1932-) is the foremost thinker on sexual difference of our times. In An Ethics of Sexual Difference Irigaray speaks out against many feminists by pursuing questions of sexual difference, arguing that all thought and language is gendered and that there can therefore be no neutral thought. Examining major philosophers, such as Plato, Spinoza and Levinas, with a series of meditations on the female experience, she advocates new philosophies through which women can develop a distinctly female space and a "love of self". It is an essential feminist text and a major contribution to our thinking about language.
The Female in Aristotle's Biology
The Female in Aristotle's Biology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Female in Aristotle's Biology write by Robert Mayhew. This book was released on 2010-11-15. The Female in Aristotle's Biology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While Aristotle's writings on biology are considered to be among his best, the comments he makes about females in these works are widely regarded as the nadir of his philosophical oeuvre. Among many claims, Aristotle is said to have declared that females contribute nothing substantial to generation; that they have fewer teeth than males; that they are less spirited than males; and that woman are analogous to eunuchs. In The Female in Aristotle's Biology, Robert Mayhew aims not to defend Aristotle's ideas about females but to defend Aristotle against the common charge that his writings on female species were motivated by ideological bias. Mayhew points out that the tools of modern science and scientific experimentation were not available to the Greeks during Aristotle's time and that, consequently, Aristotle had relied not only on empirical observations when writing about living organisms but also on a fair amount of speculation. Further, he argues that Aristotle's remarks about females in his biological writings did not tend to promote the inferior status of ancient Greek women. Written with passion and precision, The Female in Aristotle's Biology will be of enormous value to students of philosophy, the history of science, and classical literature.
Aristotle on Desire
Aristotle on Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aristotle on Desire write by Giles Pearson. This book was released on 2012-08-30. Aristotle on Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Desire is a central concept in Aristotle's ethical and psychological works, but he does not provide us with a systematic treatment of the notion itself. This book reconstructs the account of desire latent in his various scattered remarks on the subject and analyses its role in his moral psychology. Topics include: the range of states that Aristotle counts as desires (orexeis); objects of desire (orekta) and the relation between desires and envisaging prospects; desire and the good; Aristotle's three species of desire: epithumia (pleasure-based desire), thumos (retaliatory desire) and boulêsis (good-based desire - in a narrower notion of 'good' than that which connects desire more generally to the good); Aristotle's division of desires into rational and non-rational; Aristotle and some current views on desire; and the role of desire in Aristotle's moral psychology. The book will be of relevance to anyone interested in Aristotle's ethics or psychology.
