Thursday, October 4, 2018

Early Modern Philosophy lecture 12

Today we discussed Hegel. The video is posted here. The quiz question was what do you think of Frances Fukuyama's thesis in his book Identity that issues like the anger that women feel in the Metoo movement stem from Identity issues as those that Hegel describes?

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  1. The battle of the sexes it is ages old and stims from the male dominated attitudes form in male dominated societies. The identity of a women is her own as is a mans, How ever were they clash is in the teachings and old traditions of older societies that are still following the statuesque. The me to is a yearning for respect and acknowledgment that women want equal status in society as well as rights as a human being. This is an on going turmoil that is slowly changing, however, not all societies are culturally ready for that change do to that society being still primitive in attitudes towards women's place in the world.

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