PHIL-240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gastric Lavage, Foot Binding
3 Feb 2018
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Perkins-gilman: emphasis on education; education and philosophy are both concerned with a turning around of the soul in platonism, american phil. Will emphasize education: education is the task of learning to. The woman is a nurturer and thus well suited to education (but again would require the female to have resources, not be cognitively disabled, etc. ). Her argument for female teachers is based in nature (the mother as nurturer and educator) an biological assumption, not a given. But rather american education inflicts cognitive infirmity, than physical infirmity : 124: we engage in specialization: each person achieves higher aptitude in a single task than lower aptitude across a range of tasks. Previously, nature dictated individual survival, and generalization was far more common. In specialization, men and women separate: the female does tasks which could be done by anyone, while men are educators in social growths and activities. When women are uninvolved in driving innovation, they are excluded from growth.
