PHIL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Radical Feminism, Machismo, Equal Pay For Equal Work
30 Nov 2020
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The obligation arises when one understands and appreciates" the condition of the other. Judge noonan and beckwith think that this applies to the mother and her unborn. Thomson"s argument is inconsistent with the body of well-established family law, which presupposes parental responsibility of a child"s welfare. Thomson has to paint pregnancy in the most horrific of terms in order to make her argument seem plausible [dr. ] Nathanson points out that pregnancy is not a sickness". Few pregnant women are bedridden and many, emotionally and physically, have never felt better. The libertarian principles underlying thomson"s case are inconsistent with the state-mandated agenda of radical feminism. [feminists] who advocate state-mandated quotas, state-mandated comparable worth pay scales will go on to advocate abortion on the basis of an absolute libertarianism as odds with every one of those policies. Thomson"s argument implies a macho view of bodily control, a view inconsistent with true feminism.
