Tag: Pateman
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Pateman claims that in order to make their natural beings recognizable, social contract theorists smuggle social characteristics into the natural condition (or their readers supply what’s missing). What is being “smuggled” in? What is not included in Rawls’ “original position”?
Pateman: Sexual Contract Part I: Read: Carol Pateman: Chapter 3 “Contract, the Individual and Slavery” from The Sexual Contract(only pages 39-60) (you’ll also find the outlines of some of the thinkers Pateman discusses to attached for your convenience:-) According to Pateman, what is the difference between Social Contract Theory and other theoretical strategies that justify…
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Both Carole Pateman and Mary Astell criticise the social contract for excluding women. Explain how the separation of the private from public sphere maintains the domination over women.
Write a short essay of 750 words on one of the following questions: Due: we ‘Patriarchal civil society is divided into two spheres, but attention is directed to one sphere only. The story of the social contract is treated as an account of the creation of the public sphere of civil freedom. The other, private,…