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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Dear Friends of Critical Antiquities,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Our next workshop in the series will be the launch of an exciting new book on Aristotle by
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill University)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Aristotle on Sexual Difference: Metaphysics, Biology, Politics</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> (Oxford University Press 2022)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">SYDNEY: Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 10:00:00 am (AEST)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Marguerite Deslauriers is Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. She is the author of
<i>Aristotle on Definition</i> (Brill, 2007) and the co-editor of The <i>Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics</i> (Cambridge, 2013).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">A short introduction to the book by its distinguished author will be followed by discussion:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Discussants:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Sara Brill (Fairfield University)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Tristan Bradshaw (University of Wollongong)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Aristotle’s remarks about the differences between the sexes have become infamous for their implications for the social status of women. In his observations on female biology, Aristotle
claims that “the female nature is, as it were, a deformity.” In describing women’s role in the public sphere, he claims that women are naturally subordinate because, while they possess a deliberative faculty, that capacity is “without authority.” While both
claims express the “inferiority” of female bodies/women relative to male bodies/men, it is not self-evident that the defects Aristotle identifies in female biology have cognitive or moral manifestations that would justify the rule of men over women in political
life. Marguerite Deslauriers here aims to construct a coherent picture of Aristotle’s views on sexual and gender-based difference from these remarks and to show the extent to which his views on female biology and women’s role in politics are causally connected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Without exculpating Aristotle from charges of misogyny, Deslauriers contextualizes his explanations of the role and origin of female animals in his biology and the role of women in his
political philosophy; she shows how Aristotle developed these views and the importance they hold for his wider philosophical commitments. She then explores how Aristotle might have seen the link between the physiology of sex and the bearing it has on political
life. She ultimately argues that in Aristotle’s conception of sexual difference in biology and politics, there is a tension between his view of the inferiority of female bodies and women and his commitment to the idea that females and women are valuable both
for generation and for the political life characteristic of human beings. In this tension she finds a difference between Aristotle and his predecessors: while previous accounts associate sexual difference with affliction, Aristotle sees sexual difference as
a benefit, both to a species and a political community. This volume will be of interest to philosophers and students interested in ancient philosophy, feminist philosophy, as well as those studying moral and political philosophy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">If you would like to attend on Zoom, please sign up
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<i>Aristotle on Sexual Difference: Metaphysics, Biology, Politics</i> (Oxford University Press 2022).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">London: Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 1:00:00 am<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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