Medea was mistreated and oppressed due to her gender in ancient Greek society. She suffered immensely due to the unjust and debilitating circumstances from the social structure. As a result of her gender‚ she was belittled and undermined immensely. In Ancient Greek society‚ while men were attributed with positive masculine characteristics‚ the connotations correlated with women were degrading and restrictive. They were believed to be emotionally unstable‚ insecure‚ treacherous‚ spiteful‚ passive
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Empirical Rationalism claims that it can be clearly observed that a person’s moral judgements come directly from his or her rational capacity. In other words‚ it claims that based on observation‚ it is evident that our moral judgements come from reason. This opposes to sentimentalists’ theories which claim that our moral judgments come from our emotions. Shaun Nichols affirms that research done on psychopaths proves empirical rationalism wrong. For example‚ he states that psychopaths’ ability to
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The Hebrew and Greek societies are two very unique cultures. Both are similar‚ But yet different compared to each other. One way both of these cultures are similar is by being very religious. But in the same sense they are very different. The Greeks worship many gods whom they believe appeared in human form and yet were endowed with superhuman strength and ageless beauty. The Iliad and the Odyssey are early surviving examples of Greek literature‚ record men ’s interactions with various gods and
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The common view in ancient societies was often that this was a world of men; that women were inferior. There is often debate on the role of women in society‚ but in reality‚ women play an important role in any type of society‚ whether it be good or bad. Women in ancient Greece‚ China‚ and the Roman Empire were able to exercise influence into their culture despite the discrimination toward them. Although each society was different‚ women shared similar influences in their power‚ and restrictions in
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contributions to Western civilization. Greek knowledge was ascendant in philosophy‚ physics‚ chemistry‚ medicine‚ and mathematics for nearly two thousand years. The Romans did not have the Greek temperament for philosophy and science‚ but they had a genius for law and civil administration. The Romans were also great engineers and builders. They invented concrete‚ perfected the arch‚ and constructed roads and bridges that remain in use today. But neither the Greeks nor the Romans had much appreciation
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Are the ancient biblical stories and the myths of the Greeks irredeemably male oriented? All ancient societies treated women as the inferior gender. It has been historically shown that in the ancient world‚ men were the leaders‚ heroes‚ and kings‚ and women served primarily as companions‚ helpers‚ and child-bearers. In the Old Testament and throughout ancient Greek literature‚ there is a constant theme of male superiority that cannot be ignored. Men did not believe that women were capable of existing
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Rationalism is the principle that maintains that through reason alone we can gain at least some positive knowledge of the world. The three major rationalists‚ Rene Descartes‚ Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Welhelm Leibniz‚ used this idea in order to defy skepticism and expose the true nature of reality. However‚ each philosopher is frequently in disagreement. The idea for ‘God’‚ and what constitutes substance‚ matter and reality are the four key structural beliefs that aid each rationalist in the forming
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Economic Rationalism: Economic rationalism is the idea that markets and money can do everything better then what the government and law can. This also states that there is no point in political debate because it just generates insoluble conflicts It tells people to forget their national identity‚ to caste away their national goals and public policy and just let the market forces decide on the their own rational situation Economic rationalists will assert that by customers preferences dictating
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My definition of knowledge is information or awareness a person has acquired through experience. A couple of important views on the basis of knowledge includes rationalism and transcendental idealism. Rationalism is defined in the book by being the view that knowledge can be obtained through reason‚ not by the aid of the senses. While Transcendental Idealism is Immanuel Kant’s view that the world that we see around us is constructed in our mind. Rationalists argue that most of their knowledge does
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Rationalism and Empiricism almost feel like polar opposites. To begin with‚ rationalism believes one has priori knowledge. Priori knowledge is basically "fundamental truths that everyone just knows." For example‚ the idea that "everything has a shape and size." It’s an innate truth that we were already aware of. Rationalists think that we were born knowing everything already‚ but due to some traumatic event at birth‚ we forget everything we know. As we continue development on Earth‚ we begin to remember
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