The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's NatureIndiana University Press, 1993 - 224 pages This book looks at five major beliefs about woman's nature generally accepted by Western philosophers, theologians, and scientists from the classical period to the nineteenth century. These are that: woman is less perfect than man, woman possesses inferior rational capacities, woman has a defective moral sense, man is the primary creative force, and that woman is in need of control. |
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Page 28
... masculine pole can be said to be placed above the feminine . And indeed Sulphur , as the masculine pole , plays the role toward Quicksilver , the feminine pole , which is similar to that of the spirit in its action on the whole soul ...
... masculine pole can be said to be placed above the feminine . And indeed Sulphur , as the masculine pole , plays the role toward Quicksilver , the feminine pole , which is similar to that of the spirit in its action on the whole soul ...
Page 112
... masculine . In the role of creator , God is referred to with the masculine " Elohim " ( s ) , and the verb is in the masculine singular ( “ . . . the waters that were gathered together he [ P ] called Seas " [ Genesis 1:10 ] ) . All ...
... masculine . In the role of creator , God is referred to with the masculine " Elohim " ( s ) , and the verb is in the masculine singular ( “ . . . the waters that were gathered together he [ P ] called Seas " [ Genesis 1:10 ] ) . All ...
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... masculine - the red king or the philosophers ' stone - it is hardly surprising that they would conceive of the male as the superior creative principle . The masculine creative principle in the metaphysics of alchemy was the sun or Sol ...
... masculine - the red king or the philosophers ' stone - it is hardly surprising that they would conceive of the male as the superior creative principle . The masculine creative principle in the metaphysics of alchemy was the sun or Sol ...
Contents
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Copyright | |
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