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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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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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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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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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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Antique vases and statues abound with figures of women, some carrying over to modern times. ... A few fragments of women's writing exist, including lines from Sappho's poetry. ... For instance, many of the Greek vases depicting women show them handing warriors their helmets as they prepare for battle, and so some scholars point to the passive role of women. ... Mycenaean women are less prominent in the artifactual evidence. ... " Not much is known about this time concerning women or men. ...

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Augustine Confessions, and The Politics by Aristotle. ... The Bath of Wife shows the women perspective on how life should be. ... promotes her view that women wish to have authority over men. ... He also thought that women should have there role of staying home and taking care of the kids. ... Aristotle believes that the chief ingredient for a life of happiness is virtue. ...

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This opinion is supported in the statement: "The most famous ancient tragedies are probably the Oresteia of Aeschyles, Sophacles, Oedipus Rex and "Trojan Women" by Euripides. ... (Aristotle, Online) Aristotle once stated: "He must be better than we are; a man who is superior to the average man in someway."...

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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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Furthermore, philosophers such as Aristotle and Dr. ... According to Aristotle, work rarely provides the type of enjoyment that is achieved during play. ... It is all right for children to play a large part of the time, but not for mature men and women. ... -Aristotle (Adler 79) We all live and have to take measures to make sure of living. ... Aristotle's philosophy engages head on the idea of the meaning of life. ...

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The popular hairstyle for women in 330 B.C. was called the lampadion, or "little torch. ... Using Aristotle's explanation to describe virtuous individuals, Augustus would be a man of practical wisdom. ... This type of life, in Aristotle's opinion, would be the life of practical wisdom. ... Both the artist and Aristotle would agree that Augustus would be the legislator, which is the best life a human can live. ... The divine, according to Aristotle, possess more virtue than any other human being and are self-sufficient. ...

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I also agree with Aristotle and similar to him think that ugly-repulsive people can't be completely pleased in our civilization. ... I"m talking here about relation between men and women. Women won't pick a man who won't be attractive to them in any way and similar men won't choose a woman who won't have any aspect of pleasant appearance. ...

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She Begins to talk about how people define "simple justice" and how it means that we favor blacks and women. ... To back her theory up, she uses the idea's of Aristotle and what he has theorized about the Greeks. ...

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Aristotle tells us this in Happiness and the Good Life. ... Aristotle concedes that although we want to do what is honorable, we want to be happy also. ... She feels that although women are held to be good because they are caring and kinder than men in general, they are not respected for it. ... She says that this is not necessarily so, but that women have a better understanding of relationships than men and men do not connect with this. ... I do not believe that Card is saying women are right because we are more understanding and wiser in relationships, but that just decisions cannot be c...

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Women and slaves had no political rights, even in the democracies. ... The term, philosophy, was invented by the Greek people like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Thucydides, Herodotus and Pythagoras. ... Aristotle discovered many things in science and biology. ... Philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle made their contributions for which they are famous even today. ... Aristotle also wrote important works, including Poetics, a masterpiece of literary criticism. ...

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Women played similar childbearing roles in Chinese and Greek cultures. ... The women did not have many important roles outside of family in society. ... Conversely, women were not honored unless they were gods. ... Women were often treated with disrespect in both types of mythology. ... Many Greeks, like Aristotle, were embarrassed by Zeus" actions. ...

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Aristotle himself both praised Euripides calling him "the most tragic poet" and also criticized him for his confusing plotlines and his backward portrayal of what a hero is expected to be. ... Which some think explains why he painted such a negative picture of women in his plays. ... "(2) It is funny to think that some women feel that Euripides helped to strengthen the voice of women by making his leading characters women when you read how he portrays them in his plays. ... It is also discussed in Palmer's article how some analysis of Euripides plays; Medea in particular may not even fit ...

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Nightingale's father, William Nightingale, believed in women's education. ... Women had little or no rights during this era. ... This was something not seen amongst most women in this era. He concentrated on the classics, Aristotle, the Bible, and political matters. ... Her mother would not let her study this subject because it was not appropriate for a women (O"Conner, 2003). ...

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This was a big step for women in this time. ... Most Greek women, however, did not get an education. The famous philosopher Aristotle said; "between the sexes; the male is by nature superior and the female inferior, the male ruler and the female subject."... Most of theses women were foreigners or non-Athenian Greeks. ... This was not an academic education for the women or the men. ...

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Antigone According to Aristotle, "Tragedy, then, is an imitation of a noble and complete action, having the proper magnitude ; it is presented in dramatic, not narrative form, and achieves, through the representation of pitiable and fearful incidents, the catharsis of such incidents" (Golden 11). Using the criteria established by Aristotle in Poetics, "Antigone" by Sophocles displays the qualities of a tragedy. ... Later in the play while speaking to his son, Haemon, he proclaims that it is vital that they are not to be ruled by women. ...

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In the earliest times it may have been possible that women were worshipped as the creatures of life because of their reproductive abilities. But, while the power of women was recognized in mythology and rituals, the power of women in agricultural societies was less than those of hunting societies. ... Men spent most of the rest of their time raiding or looking out for raiders, so women mostly did everything else which involved lots of drudgery. 5. ...

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With minds like Aristotle and Alexander the Great, Greece would use its government to expand its intelligential ideas of economy and wealth. ... Women considered citizens and were able to own land and go to court over land, but women did have much more limited rights than the men did. ... With people such as Homer, Plato, Sacrates, Aristotle, and many other people, Greece was able to evolve through knowledge. ...

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According to Aristotle, there are three elements in stage two of catharsis (The cathartic moment), which includes the highest of misery, the fall of shields, which protected him from an ultimate truth about himself, as well as the hero's moment of enlightenment. ... Not only are all of the necessary elements of the cathartic moment present in Oedipus, which conforms almost perfectly to the true tragic form as outlined by Aristotle, but also, Oedipus, who is the king of Thebes, is of a high social status compared to the average reader. Aristotle's requirement of a single tragic flaw i...

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When Xantippe said, "Dear, your death is not justified," the 70-year-old Socrates responded, "You don't wish my death to be justified." The ancient Greek philosopher was determined to accept his unjust fate with dignity. He might have wanted to prove his innocence to his fellow citizens of A...

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