For a conceptual history of women discrimination

Authors

  • Marisa Lopes Universidade Federal de São Carlos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-9800.v0i15p81-96

Keywords:

Discrimination, Woman, Aristote.

Abstract

Far from presenting itself as an exclusively sociological issue, women’s discrimination has its conceptual ground in the history
of philosophy, specially in Aristotle’s philosophy. It is our aim here to show how the philosopher derives incompleteness, impotency, mutilation, and, finally, women’s ethical and political incapacity from his metaphysical conceptual pairs potency/act, and matter/form.

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Author Biography

  • Marisa Lopes, Universidade Federal de São Carlos

    Professora do Departamento de Filosofia
    da Universidade Federal de São Carlos

Published

2010-06-14

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Section

Articles

How to Cite

Lopes, M. (2010). For a conceptual history of women discrimination. Cadernos De Filosofia Alemã: Crítica E Modernidade, 15, 81-96. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-9800.v0i15p81-96