Monday, July 27, 2020

An Attempt to Interpet Aristotle as a Proponent of an Egalitarian, Companionate Model of Marriage

Angela McKay Knobel




Aristotle does think that there can be friendship between husband and wife; but this friendship is grounded upon the sex differences that exist between men and women, and Aristotle does not ignore the role of leadership that is proper to the husband, nor the requisite virtues that are thereby required of women as wives. A "conservatism" uses a watered-down Aristotle to advance feminism is no conservatism and its bad scholarship, too.

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