As Plato believed on Women's rights while Aristotle didn't. ... Aristotle believed that only "Males were citizens"5 and they were the ones who share the holdings in the office, as women and slaves were not capable to rule. Aristotle seemed only one sided and that was in favor of Men as he says men were equal amongst each other and the reason he gives was that as men are "self sufficient".6 Also he talks about why women couldn't rule, the reason he gives is because "Women's natural inferiority to men"7. ... And the interpretations are different...

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In his another book Aristotle propound some views about consummating men-women relationships and also supply the order of marriage. ... However, the difference between them is Aristotle gave more importance to the women in marriage. ... Unlike the ideas of Aristotle and Augustine she supported the equality which brings women to her self respect against men. ... On the contrary the ideas of the good marriage of Augustine or the perfect household theory of Aristotle, Pizan believed that marriage is suffering women because of their husbands's harshness. ... In considering the issue of gende...

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Aristotle: Politics Book One, Chpts. 1-8 In the first eight chapters of Politics, Aristotle seems to have one primary goal in mind. ... He defines couples as people who come together out of necessity, and then gives two examples: men and women for procreation, and slave and owner for survival. ... In the second part of this chapter, Aristotle explains how a city-state is formed. ... Aristotle also first mentions that if slavery involves force, than it is unjust. ... Aristotle also restates that men are superior, and women inferior, but Arnhart states that in other works Aristotle actu...

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Aristotle omits two factions of people from this argument; slaves and women. ... Aristotle claimed women were emotional and non-rational whereas men were linked with reason and were assigned to preside over women. ... Obviously, in today's politics, women play a much larger role than in the concepts of Aristotle. ... Like in the case of slaves, the role of women in Aristotle's society mirrored that of the role women in recent history. ... As in Aristotle's citizenship models, women were excluded from the polis political life. ...

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Women were not only legally dependent on men, but it was a common belief that "a woman of a well-ordered life should consider that her husband's wishes are as laws appointed for her by divine will" (Aristotle). ... In fact, Aristotle sometimes spoke of women in relation to slaves, as if they were in the same category: "...no distinction is made between women and slaves because there is no natural ruler among them" (Aristotle 4). ... Greek women were only permitted to leave the home for religious festivals which were solely for women. ... Men believed women had no reaso...

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Aristotle would agree with Plato that there is one truth. ... Aristotle uses his teleological method to see truth. ... This demonstrates that at least Plato, if not also Socrates, believes that women can also obtain truth. ... He stated that women were too emotional to be leaders, therefore, we can assume that he sees them as deficient in gaining truth. 4) To what degree is truth accessible? ... I would agree with Aristotle mostly. ...

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" However, Aristotle defined a common denominator for citizenship. ... To overcome this Aristotle changes his basic rules. ... But it gets better because women also can never become full citizens. Although he does not deny that the deliberate faculty in the women's soul is present he is of the opinion that it's sort of 'switched of', it's ineffective. 8It will remain one of the large riddles in life because never anywhere in Aristotle's writings are we able to find a reason for this unique point of view. ... Apart from some minor problems with slaves and wo...

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Aristotle's achievements stretch through most scientific disciplines, many of which were founded by him. ... Aristotle seems to have written the Ethics in order to understand the nature of man. ... Now Aristotle did not mean simply Happiness' by Eudaimonia. ... He also stated that one must be a man, for women cannot reason well. ... This brings an end to Aristotle's reasoning on Eudaemonia. ...

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Plato considered this model of state to include women, and not just on one level, but on all levels, including the ruler or Philosopher King (King or Queen), (Price 64). ... In terms of women, Aristotle was in total disagreement with Plato on their importance. He felt that women were incomplete, or mutilated (Price 92). ... According to Aristotle, women should submit to the rule of the male sex, who is purer in essence. ... What really turns me off about Aristotle is his total discrimination of women. ...

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Equalities of the People - Aristotle vs. Jefferson Aristotle and Thomas Jefferson both have visions of equality among the masses. ... Aristotle discusses oligarchy and democracy. ... Women were not considered equal either. Women did not have any rights. ...

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Aristotle of course finds this course of thought ridiculous. ... Plato's most apt pupil, Aristotle, while agreeing with his master that women are by nature inferior to men, disagrees quite plainly about the equality of gender roles. Speaking specifically about the role of women in the military Aristotle says this, "Yet even here the influence of the Spartans" women has been very harmful. ... Unlike Plato's supposition about women, Aristotle feels that women are not only inferior in strength to men but also inferior in the powers of the mind as a result of their inception and role...

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In Plato's view, such a principle would ensure a good operation of State, if supplemented by some other principles: commonality of property, women, rulers and warriors. ... Aristotle defined moral activity as an "internal measure- . ... In Aristotle's view, moral action is rational, that's why it presupposes free choice between good and evil. ... Aristotle's ethics and politics have different foundations. ... According to Aristotle, personal status in society is defined by property. ...

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Aristotle could be considered the first popular literary critic. ... In light of these changes some of Aristotle's rules are not applicable anymore. ... Aristotle states that the form of tragedy is an "imitation of a noble and complete action, having the proper magnitude"(Aristotle 6). ... The women in the play are very strong in character. ... Works Cited Aristotle. ...

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One of the biggest problems facing feminists through history has been the entrenchment of both religion and science in ideologies based on Aristotle. Aristotle viewed women as imperfect men. ... Not only did Aristotle posit that women were "misbegotten men," but he also stated that they had lighter and inferior brains (Tuana, 1993). ... This exclusion of women further reinforces the view that women have only passive and reproductive roles, and that all progress in technology and biology are due to the influence of men. ... The depiction of evolution further reinforces the passive role of wo...

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Aristotle also states that the aim of tragedy is to excite pity and fear, which are the distinctive marks of a tragedy. ... Mary Warren makes a poppet for Elizabeth and gives it to her the very same night that the women are rounded up for suspicion of witchcraft. ... Another aspect in which Miller agreed with Aristotle on was the ending of a play. ... Miller chose to agree with Aristotle and have the so called tragic ending in which Procter, our tragic hero is killed. Though Miller and Aristotle agreed here they did not agree on everything. ...

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Aristotle was a great speaker in politics and life and addresses a lot of issues in his book, the Politics. ... All through out the teaches of Aristotle, you find out they women have no rule at all when it comes to the governing the land and politics that are going on. ... Aristotle, the Politics, shows a lot in women and how their role was back then, especially when it came to government, the household, and life in general. ... Aristotle was not one who believed that women were worth nothing, but believed that they were something you should respect and hold in the highest. When you read abo...

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Literacy was not encouraged for respectable women. ... Aristotle wrote that marriage between men and women is naturally unequal, and that a woman must look to her husband as a beneficiary looks to a benefactor. ... Aristotle defined women as biologically inferior in this way: "The female is, as it were, a deformed male", and his mentor Plato, resorting to his reincarnation beliefs presented his case as follows: "Men who proved themselves cowardly and spent their lives in wrong doing were transformed, at their second incarnation, into women". In a similar manner, Hippocrates, almost 100 years b...

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Aristotle defines anger as "an impulse attended by paincaused by an obvious, unjustified, slight with respect to the individual or his friends" (Aristotle in Cooper 93). Aristotle states that although there are different kinds of slight, in all cases, "something is angered by neglect or interference" (Aristotle in Cooper 96). ... Another requirement of anger, as laid out by Aristotle, is that anger is always accompanied by "pleasure arising from the expectation of revenge" (Aristotle in Cooper 93). ... These premises, which generalize women, serves as examples of ...

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What role did women play in Greek society? How has the Greeks" view of women influenced our own? The role of women in Greek society and the Greeks view of women will be exposed. ... Xenophon, Aristotle, and other great minds of the time thought "men and women are, by nature, provided with opposite faculties, which nevertheless provide for the "partnership" of the household. ... Aristotle reports that in democracies it was impossible to keep poor women from going out, and it was in fact not just a sign of pride, but also of poverty for free women to circulate in the public spaces of th...

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Throughout history, the desire to attain it has led men to war, women to murder and humanity to the brink of self-destruction. ... Like Plato, Aristotle strongly believed that happiness is more than just simple pleasure. ... Aristotle splits virtue into two parts: moral virtues and intellectual virtues. ... Aristotle believes that luck or fortune is needed to reach happiness. ... "No one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all other goods" (Aristotle, 1155A)." ...

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The dictionary defines a wife as a women who joined to a man in marriage, or the female spouse, but the definition doesn't tell you what exactly a wife is or rather should be in order to be a good wife. ... Aristotle even wrote and essay on his view on the subject. ... (Ancient history Sourcebook: Aristotle: On a Good Wife, from Oikonomiko, c. ... Jason running off to marry another women, for whatever reason, makes him unfaithful therefore Medea is allowed to act in an unrighteous manner. Thus, Medea technically didn't break Aristotle's rules or is at least excused from it bec...

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But Aristotle had a very different view on this. Aristotle did not favor communism. ... What I appreciated mostly in the movie is the equality of women. Women can fight and even lead troops in wars. Plato once declared in his The Republic that if we are to set women to the same tasks as men, we must teach them the same things. ...

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Who makes women? ... Women are mainly condemned to immanence. ... It is common knowledge that Aristotle, Kant, Hegel and many others wrote unfavorably or simply incorrectly about women. In the best-known farcical example is probably Aristotle's assertion that the temperature of the woman's body is lower than that of the man's. ... Similar to the relationship between men and women, ideas and experience, physics and philosophy, or Plato and Aristotle, look like against each other but also look like relative to each other. ...

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Aristotle agreed more with psychological Hedonism and bases his arguments on Hedonism in the fact that happiness comes from fulfilling our nature, and human nature is rooted in excellence. He states that the "highest good must be something final" (Aristotle). ... Aristotle believes that eudemonia, (happiness in a life of activity governed by reason) is the highest pleasure, whereas the philosopher Sigmund Freud believes that sex is the highest form of pleasure. ... For example, men and women are on a never ending quest for the opposite sex. ... Aristotle, Epicurus, and Freud all say that we...

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Aristotle's ideas about women are also rather controversial. He believes that women are fully human. ... I could not agree with his thoughts about women. ... Women are human beings and not property. Today, women are seen as equal in all of society. ...

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