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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-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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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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At its loosest, it can have a varied application ranging from community theatre to consciousness-raising by groups with a specific identity such as women's, black or gay companies. ... Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) offered a challenge to Aristotle's ancient approach to theatre as a spectator activity. ...

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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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