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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... soul from a base form to a perfect form , the valuation of the male soul over the female soul becomes a part of both processes of perfection . " The two forces or poles of human nature ( the Sulphur and Quicksilver of the inward ...
... soul from a base form to a perfect form , the valuation of the male soul over the female soul becomes a part of both processes of perfection . " The two forces or poles of human nature ( the Sulphur and Quicksilver of the inward ...
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... soul or the mind to demonstrate human superiority over all other animals . Some theorists , claiming that only humans possess a soul , view this as proof that humans alone are " in God's image . " The idea of woman as a misbegotten or ...
... soul or the mind to demonstrate human superiority over all other animals . Some theorists , claiming that only humans possess a soul , view this as proof that humans alone are " in God's image . " The idea of woman as a misbegotten or ...
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... soul . BIOLOGY AND SOUL : ARISTOTLE . " 13 As the cosmology of Plato became the science of Aristotle , a biological explana- tion was offered for the imperfection of woman's soul . For Aristotle , soul is " bet- ter than body . " It has ...
... soul . BIOLOGY AND SOUL : ARISTOTLE . " 13 As the cosmology of Plato became the science of Aristotle , a biological explana- tion was offered for the imperfection of woman's soul . For Aristotle , soul is " bet- ter than body . " It has ...
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