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The Power Of Reason

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Kant justifies his argument by describing the character of a female, for example he says that women care for adornment and decorations, and find interest in things that are pretty, they even “prefer the beautiful to the useful” (77, Kant) Women are of the beautiful because they have a “beautiful understanding” he states, it does not befit a woman to engage in deep meditation, because her “unconstrained charms should show nothing else than a beautiful nature,” (78, Kant), he repeatedly influences what a women ought to do with disregard to what they are capable of, or actually do...
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Kant’s reasoning for the dominance of a male lies on the different characteristics of each sex, his legitimacy is understood when he claims things like, “the purposes of nature are directed still more to ennoble man, by sexual inclination, and likewise still more to beautify woman,” (93, Kant), thus, he gives reason for men and women to be unequal, because through this they compliment each other! Though of course he also states that if a woman tries to engage herself in trying difficulties she will do so poorly, thus a woman is to just be pretty and have a beautiful, sympathetic understanding of things while a man does all the tough, intellectual understanding...
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