Women on the other hand, are taught that they are supposed to behave femininely. ... Women were not even granted the right to vote until 1920. ... This idea that men are the superior sex was even taught by the world renowned, greek philosopher, Aristotle. According to Aristotle, "between the sexes, the male is by nature superior and the female inferior, the male ruler and the female subject" (NP). ... "Men endeavor to sink us [women] still lower", preventing women from having any authority (Wollstonecraft 8). ...

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.# 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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As human beings, women should have human rights. ... Thus, women were the products of evil men, so women were inferior to men. ... Another famous philosopher, Aristotle, held that women were the human beings with four strong limbs but simple brains. ... It is the real reflect of American women's status in society that women are belittled in culture. ... Women's movement meant a new moral standard between men and women should be established. ...

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Bernhard Graethuysen defines the significance by saying that with Aristotle "man ceases to be problematic, with him man speaks of himself always as it were in the third person The special dimension, in which man knows himself as he can know himself alone, remains unentered, and for that reason man's special place in the cosmos remains undiscovered... The hierarchical position espoused by Aristotle, Kant, and many others all saw women as inferior types of men. Whereas the anti-hierarchical position takes the view that women are as good as men and not different at all. Both positions see...

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