What do we mean by ‘human’ and ‘nature’ and what is natural about ‘human nature’?
Does biology determine our humanity and human rights?
In this session I explore how feminist philosophers have challenged the traditional framing of man as the universal human subject, which casts woman as ‘other’, and critique the dominant Western dualistic conception of rationality, that associates man with culture and woman with nature.
Feminist thinkers typically contend that human nature is shaped by nurture rather than by ‘nature’ and that gender and gender roles are not biologically determined .