The dominant tradition in Western philosophy has tended to assign a privileged role to a detached version of reason, denigrating the body and emotion while overlooking how this point of view is itself patriarchal and culturally biased. Western feminist philosophers have offered broad critiques of this tradition and its patriarchal (or masculinist) assumptions. Write an essay detailing this
perspective, focusing first on the feminist critique of patriarchal assumptions about sex and gender. Then look at how feminists challenge cultural assumptions about three of the following issues: nature; the body and reason; gender, moral reasoning, and emotion; science; and language.
What will be an ideal response?
This is an expository essay on feminist philosophy. One way to enrich it would be to tie it into any of the discussions in other chapters. For example, Chapter 5 can be integrated with the discussion of reason, Chapter 8 with the discussion of Gilligan and Kohlberg, and so forth.
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What will be an ideal response?
A primary concern regarding a sound academic approach to the study of world religions involves the fact that it arose within an intellectual culture that:
a. Embraced atheistic and agnostic theories of human behavior
b. Ignored the relevance of religion as an important factor in molding society
c. Tended to take for granted that Christianity was a model of what religion ought to be
d. Was overtly influenced by Communism and therefore tended to undervalue religion
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A. that something exists if something else exists B. that something actually exists C. that something may exist D. None of the answers are correct