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" The difference between men and women is like that between animals and plants. Men correspond to animals, while women correspond to plants because their development is more placid and the principle that underlies it is the rather vague unity of feeling. "
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body - Page 12
by Susan Bordo - 2023 - 400 pages
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The Philosophical Imaginary

Michèle Le D uff - Philosophy - 1989 - 228 pages
...which require universality. Women may have ideas, taste, and elegance, but they do not have the ideal. The difference between men and women is like that...animals, while women correspond to plants because their life is more a placid unfolding, the principle of which is the undetermined unity of feeling. When...
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Modern Political Theory and Contemporary Feminism: A Dialectical Analysis

Jennifer Ring - Social Science - 1991 - 244 pages
...artistic production. Women may have happy ideas, taste, and elegance, but they cannot attain to the ideal. The difference between men and women is like that...underlies it is the rather vague unity of feeling. When women hold the helm of government, the state is at once in jeopardy, because women regulate their...
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G W F Hegel: Modernity and Politics

Fred R. Dallmayr - Political Science - 1993 - 310 pages
...artistic production. Women may have happy ideas, taste, and elegance, but they cannot attain to the ideal. The difference between men and women is like that...plants because their development is more placid and governed more by the rather vague unity of feeling. (Grundlinien, 319-320; Hegel's Philosophy of Right,...
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Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason

Terry Pinkard - Philosophy - 1994 - 468 pages
...artistic production. Women may happy ideas, taste and elegance, but they cannot attain to the ideal. The difference between men and women is like that...underlies it is the rather vague unity of feeling. When women hold the helm of government, the state is at once in jeopardy, because women regulate their...
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Lonergan and Feminism

Cynthia S. W. Crysdale - Social Science - 1994 - 252 pages
...to be an aberration.) Returning to the same passage in Hegel's Philosophy of Right, we read further: The difference between men and women is like that...underlies it is the rather vague unity of feeling.'' ' Kierkegaard, who differed so radically on major points with Hegel, reiterates fundamentally the same...
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Critical Theory of Religion: A Feminist Analysis

Marsha Hewitt - Religion - 1995 - 256 pages
...and certain forms of artistic production." He goes on to compare men with "animals" and women with "plants, because their development is more placid...underlies it is the rather vague unity of feeling." Because of their capricious nature, women become a menace to the state if they get involved in government....
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Schelling and the End of Idealism

Dale E. Snow - Philosophy - 1996 - 284 pages
...elegance, but they cannot attain to the ideal. The difference between men and women is like the difference between animals and plants. Men correspond to animals,...it is the rather vague unity of feeling. Women are educated—who knows how—as it were by breathing in ideas, by living rather than acquiring knowledge....
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Feminist Interpretations of G.W.F. Hegel

Patricia Jagentowicz Mills - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 372 pages
...Hegel does offer an alternative to Lucinde—but that alternative is to be a plant. Hegel tells us: "The difference between men and women is like that...to plants because their development is more placid. ' " 3 Nietzsche suggests that the choice is between Lucinde and the castrating, moralizing woman. Hegel...
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Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture

Kelly Oliver - Families - 1997 - 288 pages
...i952, n4). Whereas men are capable of higher intellectual life, women inhabit a realm of feelings; "women correspond to plants because their development...underlies it is the rather vague unity of feeling" (263). Women are "educated" into this natural realm of feeling "who knows how? — as it were by breathing...
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Modernity's Pretenses: Making Reality Fit Reason from Candide to the Gulag

Karlis Racevskis - Philosophy - 1998 - 184 pages
...which require universality. Women may have ideas, taste, and elegance, but they do not have the ideal. The difference between men and women is like that...animals, while women correspond to plants because their life is more a placid unfolding, the principle of which is the undetermined unity of feeling. When...
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