.# In her lecture on Aristotle's theory of inferiority being inscribed in the body, Dr. ... In Aristotle's world, slavery was ubiquitous and justifiable, because of the belief that there were actually naturally born slaves, that is, humans who were born physically inferior to all Greeks. ... Women, with their lower center of gravity and rounder, less muscular bodies, were seen as being the colder of the species, thus inferior and not suited for complicated tasks, the way men were. Albert's theories, although insightful and even believable at times, do not hold up under m...

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In Aristotle's book, Poetics, the philosopher defines a tragic hero as someone of high status, flawed, afflicted with hamartia (tragic flaw) and hubris (arrogance), is punished severely, and in the end gains wisdom. ... According to Aristotle, the tragedy that affects the classical tragic hero is the result of his human flaws as opposed to the interference of an exterior force. ... " The strange feelings that the son has towards his father are made doubly complex by an added fear as a result of his discovery of the absence of a phallus in women. ...

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This contradicted express statements by Aristotle concerning the heavens where no change could ever take place. The Church at the time accepted Aristotle's view that the heavens were made of perfect and unalterable substance called the "quintessence". ... Many minorities and women have barely managed to emerge from this equivalent climate and attitude today! Throughout the book Drake attempts to portray Galileo as a man striving for a new philosophy that would displace verbal exercise of Aristotle but unlike them did not set one forth. Drake comments that, "Aristotle's physics offe...

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This was much different than the government prior to Pericles because political roles were only held by those who met the requirements of "birth and wealth " (Excerpts From Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution). ... For example: foreigners, women, and slaves were not allowed to vote in Athens (Hunt). ...

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-Aristotle Democracy: a form of government that makes political decisions directly exercised by the whole body of citizens, under procedures of majority rule. ... Aristotle represents "tyranny in Politics as a "perversion" that serves the personal advantages of the ruler alone, or a "despotic monarchy of the political community" or a, "despotic rule conducted according to the ruler's personal judgement."" ... Aristotle proves the difference between old forms of government and the new democracy in his writing in Politics.(1279b34-80a4) "The argument seems to show that a number of the gover...

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" Additionally, ethics has been a topic of copious debate between not just many philosophers including Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, but also in our current day in politics and law. Expanding on contemporary philosophy, philosophers today talk about very important social issues such as women's rights and environmental issues. ... As the great Aristotle once noted, there is widespread agreement that happiness is the goal, but considerable disagreement as to what constitutes happiness. ...

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Many predominant modern philosophies in Western civilization are directly traceable to Zoroastrianism through (1) the Greek philosophers Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno, (2) the Roman Stoics, (3) the Manicheans and Saint Augustine of Hippo in the Third Century A.D., (4) the Albigensians of Southern France and Spain in the early Middle Ages, (5) the Italian scholastic philosopher Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century A.D., (6) the Jansenists of France in the 17th century, and (7) the Puritans in England and its American colonies during the 16th and 17th centuries. ... Principled and brilliant Greek...

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This is similar to Aristotle's dictum "know thyself"; - transcendentalists accepted the neo-Platonic conception of nature as a living mystery, full of signs - nature is symbolic; - the belief that individual virtue and happiness depend upon self-realization - this depends upon the reconciliation of two universal psychological tendencies: a) the expansive or self-transcending tendency-a desire to embrace the whole world - to know and become one with the world. ... She used Emerson's doctrine of self-trust to examine the women's condition in the 19th cen...

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As Aristotle once said: "Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain," even the most subjective exercise like learning is correlated with its required dedication. ... The depiction of inferior women can be traced back to the Greek mythology of the girl Leda as W.B. ... When women are generally restricted as described, the interplay between powers thus raises the superiority of men. ... Atwood reveals the idea of women manipulating power and defending themselves. ... Women strip for immortality, for the essence of their hidden anima, and for a reincarnation of Hele...

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Her mission of her article is to explain " just what the female spectator may get out of stories that, like Disney's The Little Mermaid, seems in part designed to reinforce negative stereotype about women and girls."... She also expects them to have knowledge of the western cultural standards; particularly about women, politics, and psychology. ... Since the content of the texts is about the viewing of women in a cartoon move the article also appeals to women's rights activists, students (college level and up), and other film critics. ... She then starts the text by quoting lines fr...

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Aristotle in his Politics, agrees with this decision, and comments that Solon "gave people only the necessary minimum of power" (41). ... Women, slaves, metics, who were those of foreign birth, and those who had only one Athenian parent were not eligible for governmental activity of any kind. ... In regard to women, they only fulfilled domestic duties. ...

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Rates of abortions have changed little between 2003 and 2008,, forty percent of the world's women had access to legal induced abortions "without restriction as to reason". ... The American Psychological Association has concluded that a single abortion is not a threat to women's mental health, and that women are no m...

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Aristotle stated that 'by nature' there were free men and slaves, yet if inequalities are natural, Crompton suggests there be no need to explain them. ... Environmental groups, groups concerned with world peace, and representatives of women and subordinate ethnic groups are now shaping the face of political change. ... The question of women and feminism also erodes away at the support of class theory. ... The gendered division of labour is posing tremendous obstacles to the development of a single classification which would encompass both men and women. ...

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Cesare Lombroso was an Italian criminologist born in Venice, Italy on November 18, 1836 to parents of Jewish decent. He wrote several books which were published including a book on antisemitism. Blaming Jewish people for their conditions and proposed assimilation as the answer for problem of preju...

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