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The new edition of this popular book is reorganized to present
pairs of contrasting views on what it means to be a man in
contemporary Western culture. Addressing such issues as sex
differences, fatherhood, intimacy, homosexuality, and oppression;
the collection also includes new discussions of paternity,
pornography, mixed-race marriage, impotence, and violence.
Rethinking Masculinity is an excellent text for gender studies,
ethics, and social philosophy courses.
Examining the debate that began as modern science separated itself
from natural philosophy in the 16th and 17th centuries, this text
explores the two dominant approaches to causation as a metaphysical
problem and as a scientific problem. As philosophy and science
turned from the ideas of Aristotle that dominated western thought
throughout the renaissance, one of the most pressing intellectual
problems was how to replace Aristotelian science with its doctrine
of the four causes. The text looks at the historical discussion as
a debate that surrounds certain themes and ideas, and combines
classical discussions of causation with recent thinking on the
topic.
A study of the debate that began as modern science separated itself
from natural philosophy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The book explores the two dominant approaches to causation, as a
metaphysical problem and as a scientific problem. Classical
discussions of causation are also combined with recent thinking on
the topic.
The new edition of this popular book is reorganized to present
pairs of contrasting views on what it means to be a man in
contemporary Western culture. Addressing such issues as sex
differences, fatherhood, intimacy, homosexuality, and oppression;
the collection also includes new discussions of paternity,
pornography, mixed-race marriage, impotence, and violence.
Rethinking Masculinity is an excellent text for gender studies,
ethics, and social philosophy courses.
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