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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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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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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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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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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Non-citizens were women and slaves. ... All citizens have the right to vote, but women and slaves have no political rights. ... Men and women wore a belted garment of linen or wool called a chiton, which means it hung to their knees, for the men, and hung to their ankles, for the women. ... The most important philosophers were Socrates, Pluto, and Aristotle. ...

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The ancient Greeks had a huge impact on western civilization. They have made major contributions to the world. They have done this through politics/democracy, the arts, literature, philosophy, science/math and war/military. To this day we see many of their practices still in us. Many countries ...

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Even as far back as ancient Greece this debate was alive, with plate and Aristotle taking very different lines of thought. ... Jews also say that God has created man and out-of-man (women) to be equal and to be God's image. Jews say that man and women are equal as the story of Adam and Eve shows that 'God took Eve from Adams side' and they are both needed for the fuller picture of Gods image. ...

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