in some instances it is, there could be grounds for emotional abuse from a spouse. If all you have is "his property" then you have nothing except for your children, and work to tend to. This appears hard for women to work through to progressively change the social order between men and women.Women within Cole's article still reflect a chance of emergence from the male dominated culture of Ancient Greek lifestyle. First, to demonstrate is Aristotle's 3 syllogisms:1) Women and slaves suffer from a deficiency in respect of practical reason:2) Practical reasoning is the result of education; Therefore3) Women and slaves should be educated.He leaves the statement open to discussion, and I agree with Cole that Aristotle was unable to conform to society standards regarding the intelligence within a woman. As he carries on to describe females as a mutilated male, he is trying to find grounds to discredit women from ever gaining practical reasoning. With this argument Cole disagrees with Aristotle's claim that practical reasoning enables males to certain privileges and derogates the female. She contradicts him by speaking of simple tasks that require thought process and decision making skills, do that not seem like practical reasoning. Another reason I agree with Cole, regarding Aristotle's choice of conclusions to the syllogisms, is the economic standpoint of his moral philosophy. Women are the providers for their families. "It is their virtuous labor which provides the workfree open space in which democratic political life is lived by citizen males, and free women even provide those citizen males themselves through their reproductive labor," (Serba 85). Women believed themselves to be of a greater good, because of the economic power that they had over the man. Though it may never be spoke outside of the family homestead, I believe women to be more intellectual than let be known.By the words spoken by Aristotle, women were portrayed a...
