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Feminists Critique On Aristotle Gender Perspective
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1.1 A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ARISTOTLE
Aristotle was born in
Staigeira in 384 B.C His father was a physician and it was no doubt from
interest in biology. At the age of seventeen, Aristotle went to Athens
to study and there he joined Plato’s academy and remained for over
twenty years a pupil of Plato, studying under him in the academy. After
Plato’s death, Aristotle left the academy and began to develop his own
philosophy. He eventually founded his own institution, the lyceum, where
he lectured and carried out a lot of scientific research. The members
of this school frequently help academic discussions while walking up and
down on ambulatory, and this earned them his name peripatetic, and the
school became known as the peripatetic school. Aristotle’s main interest
beside philosophy was in the empirical sciences, especially biology.
Aristotle was invited to Macedon in 343 B.C by Philip, King of Macedon
to educate his son Alexander who was then about thirteen years old.
Aristotle thus became the tutor of the Alexander the Great.
Aristotle
wrote books on a variety of subjects, logic, physics, metaphysics,
ethics, politics, psychology, biology, Aesthetics and Rhetoric. His
works on logic are collectively known as Organon, those on physics
include De Caelo and De Generatione et corruptione. His works on
psychology include the De Anima and biological works include his History
of Animals his famous work metaphysics is a collection 0f lectures that
were considered difficult to understand. His works on Ethics include
the famous Nichomachean Ethics and Magna Moralia. His politics was based
on a study of 158 different constitutions including the constitution of
Athens.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Some men up till recent
times have not found the situation of women’s predicament as a problem.
They are in most cases not concerned with the plight of women. Even in
learning about women, men are not interested, they have accepted this
situation as normal and any contrary situation is considered as
abnormal. Women are valued in most cases only for their outward
appearances and services they render to men’s passions. It is worthy
noting that the women who suffer this unhealthy treatment are our
mothers, sisters, in-laws, wives and daughters.
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