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12 Cards in this Set
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Plato, believes that THIS keeps us from real knowledge because of deceptive senses.
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The Body
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According to Plato, true knowledge can only be obtained through ______.
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The Soul
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Why does Plato point to women as the improper way to pursue the things that philosophers search for?
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Plato believes that women use their emotions (the body) over their reason and that women do not recognize the difference between the material world and the reality.
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What is real beauty according to Plato?
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Real beauty is eternal and invisible and unchangeable and can only be known through the soul.
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Why is it important for feminists to understand the soul/body legacy?
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1.The same arguments used to discriminate women are similar to those against men, children, humans, etc.
2.Some women are unconsciously adopting the ideas that already are oppressing them. |
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When does Simone de Beauvoir think emancipation of women will come?
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When women are freed from the association of "woman as body", according to the male wisdom of the centuries.
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Beauvoir's idea that "to be human is to have mind prevail over body", follows whose ideas?
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It follows Plato's ideas that the body is deceitful and that reason (the rational soul) is the only way to true knowledge.
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Explain Betty Friedan's solution: for women to leave (not entirely) women's sphere and "ascend" into man's.
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This also follows the mind/body distinction. (like Plato and Beavoir)
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What assumption has contributed to the degradation of women?
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That women are bound to their body and the distinction between mind & body.
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What does the acceptance of the mind/body model lead to?
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Descrimination of all races & political/social ramifications.
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Explain why Adrienne Rich thinks we should look at Childbirth like athletics.
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Rich believes that we should look at childbirth as just an active physical experience and not as enduring pain.
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What does Adrienne Rich reject?
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Adrienne Rich rejects dualism, she puts the mind & body together. She believes we can appeal to the physical without denying the mind.
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