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Feminists Critique On Aristotle Gender Perspective
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1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The
courage for this topic came from two sources, the first is the personal
experience of how people ignore women and regard them as inferior to
men and a belief that it is important to seriously what people have said
about women. Women are still in many places treated as non persons,
inferior, second class citizens and weak gender. The second source was
an increasing awareness of and interest in what seemed to be some
central tensions in feminist thinking and in the relationship between
these tension and philosophical theories.
I am to explore some of
these tensions and in particular to look at these which centre on the
idea of a specifically female philosophical perspective. Women have
wanted autonomy and have appealed to philosophical theories to express
this, but some women have also argued that many conceptions of autonomy
are male defined. They have wanted equality with men and have fought
against their exclusion from theories put forward by men and my journey
in this topic is to make necessary effort to identify and discuss what
seem to me to be central tension in feminist thinking and the way in
which these have involved both a use and a critique of philosophical
theories against gender equality.
1.4 SCOPE OF STUDY
In this work
emphasis will be based mainly on certain violent practices committed
against women especially African women. Some of the various ways in
which women have suffered violence will be explored both from the
societal circle and that of the individual.
1.5 METHODOLOGY
The
method to be employed in this research work be expository, evaluative
and practical. On expository part, I shall expose some of men’s actions
that affect women physically and psychological. It will be evaluative,
since I am going to evaluate certain tensions in the feminists thinking
and the relationship between these tensions and philosophical
theories. Finally, it will be practical since some research work is
experimental and deals with the observable facts of our daily life as
Africans.
Meanwhile, this work is divided into five chapters; in
chapter one, general introduction on the nature of the work. In chapter
two, literature review on the topic from different philosophical
theories. In chapter three, Aristotle’s theories on soul and body as an
analogy used in as position of women and men also in his theory of
women and slavery, in the subsection of the chapter, the effect of the
above theories on women. In the fourth chapter is the ideology of
feminism and types of feminism, also in the subsection of the chapter,
is strategies for justice on women. Lastly, in the fifth chapter is the
evaluation of the whole work and conclusion of the whole worK
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