The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's NatureIndiana University Press, 1993 - 224 pages This book looks at five major beliefs about woman's nature generally accepted by Western philosophers, theologians, and scientists from the classical period to the nineteenth century. These are that: woman is less perfect than man, woman possesses inferior rational capacities, woman has a defective moral sense, man is the primary creative force, and that woman is in need of control. |
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... Mind should listen to Sense - perception , and not Sense - perception to Mind : for it is al- ways right that the superior should rule and the inferior be ruled ; and Mind is superior to Sense - perception . " 22 Also like Plato , Philo ...
... Mind should listen to Sense - perception , and not Sense - perception to Mind : for it is al- ways right that the superior should rule and the inferior be ruled ; and Mind is superior to Sense - perception . " 22 Also like Plato , Philo ...
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... mind and the world . Descartes's philosophy shows clear influence of the Christian tenet that man was made in God's image ; he envisioned man as being " like God " in the sense of possessing ability to achieve , through reason , a ...
... mind and the world . Descartes's philosophy shows clear influence of the Christian tenet that man was made in God's image ; he envisioned man as being " like God " in the sense of possessing ability to achieve , through reason , a ...
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... mind ; the emotions must be dominated by the will . This conception of the rational person is in com- plete opposition to all characteristics historically conceived as female and asso- ciated with woman — the body , emotion , and ...
... mind ; the emotions must be dominated by the will . This conception of the rational person is in com- plete opposition to all characteristics historically conceived as female and asso- ciated with woman — the body , emotion , and ...
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