PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Masculinity
4 Aug 2013
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Life can be meaningful but not because people meant it that way. Patriarchy: maleness and older trumps female and young. Must teach people because naturally people are ignorant. Tao / wu way feel opposite ^ pro feminism and natural and spontaneously. The way is the ultimate force and is normative. Prize masculinity = resistance to the way. Masculinity associated with strength to bring goal and make ppl do what he wants ppl to do. Masculine is strong in the small picture. But kind, exible, gentle make it father in the larger scheme (feminine virtues) Big things die but small things always survive (ex. Conventional strength is vulnerability, the exible is the way of the way. Talking is a way of operating in a mode of ction because language and our stories and made by us, so its ction.
