Susan bordo’s challenge to Descartes rationalism

Susan bordo’s challenge to Descartes rationalism

Discuss how Susan Bordo’s challenge to Descartes’ rationalism might impact the empirical criterion of meaning presented by David Hume. Do women “see” things different than men? Can you provide any evidence? What about the title of the book like “men are from mars; women are from Venus”? What does this suggest about differences between men and women? If we can only know what our senses tell us, are men and women living in the same universe?

I’m using the book Archetypes of Wisdom (9th ed.) if that helps.

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The challenge to Descartes Rationalism

According to Susan Bordo, the primary challenge to Descartes’ rationalism is requisite for one to sunder organic ties between the subject and the object. Consequently, one would require to look at the individual independent of the world, in which case the world then becomes a machine and not the cosmos (Soccio 272). Therefore, it becomes impractical, according to Bordo, to conduct an appropriate analysis of the individual since he or she operates within the world, and it would be relatively difficult to analyze either one devoid of the other.

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