Salam Be Hamegi

I have to submit an essay this week and i wanted to see if you guys could give me some ideas. I have started it already but im short on ideas.

here is the question

Are the moral experience of women and men fundamentally different in ways that would affect their interpretation and evaluation of choices and actions? How could you develop an analogues critique based on racial differences

Amir jaan, i personally think that the answer to the question is a simple "NO".

I for one have not noticed seperate catagories of behaviour associated with morality for men and women.

Although in most likelyhood men and women do experience the world differently (which can lead to developing a different set of moral standards), I think that the greatest factors that determine a persons moral stadards are as follows:

1. Narcissistic or not narcissistic
2. Enviroment
3 Life experience

It's really only the third one of these three that can be of value to you in this question. Now, if you do believe that men and women DO in fact generally adhere by a different set of moral standards, then you WOULD HAVE TO PROVE OR SHOW EVIDENCE THAT WOMEN IN GENERAL (not just in isolate cases) HAVE MUCH DIFFERENT LIFE EXPERIENCES THAT MEN IN GENERAL.

Or, if you really want to go out there, you can go and see if there is actually a difference in percentage when it comes to narcissistic men and narcissistic women.

The enviroment is a constant no matter the sex.

Ramin jan, I think the main difference is the parents, which would be part of the environment and this is fairly trendy. You can see that common belief in the old times had been that girls should stay virgin until they get married but boys can screw around and things of that sort. Nowadays the trend is different but certainly the way parents treat their kids is generally different between boys and girls, specially in certain geographical areas than others.

good point PJ jaan. I guess that the "enviroment" category should be broadened to include "societal views and obligation". If Amir chooses to go this route, then I think that he will have a very good argument for the existence of the difference.

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Yes I agree with both Pedram and Ramin that to this day there are certain social perceptions and stereotypes, even in Western societies to some extent, which can not be ignored altogether in the social development of men and women. I think that's a great starting point for your essay Amirr jaan. If you wanna go really deep and assure an A+ ;) I would actually trace back this social/environmental issue to our evolution.

An old friend of mine brought up a very interesting point once which was that women, through evolutionary forces, tend to be more selective with their mates than men. The reason for this is that as you know women only ovulate once every month (roughly), giving them a small window of opportunity to have already selected a mate for procreation. This is obviously not the case with men as we have an unlimited supply of semen (sorry to be getting a little gross here ;)) and no specific time limits to use it.

This evolutionary development and its consequences may very well have tipped wome toward Artificial Selection (in Darwinian terms) and men toward Natural Selection! You can even make this really controversial and claim that eating the "fruit of the tree of knowledge of rightness or wrongness" in a Biblical sense could very well refer to Eve selecting to this process of Artificial rather than Natural selection!!! I obviously don't recommend going that far if you have a female prof. ;)

Amir jan, I have not had a chance to read your question nor the replies. Just wanted to see your avatar for a little boost of energy for the time being. :)

Even, if I have nothing to say, I am sure I'll be checking this thread again later. ;)

dame hamegi garm..you guys really helped and gave enough points to get me started..bazam merci

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Agree with the above, there are reasons why women and men may interpret differently but I don't think that sets them apart much, if at all, on a moral level.

I forget which female philosopher wrote about men and women having different interpretations on history. That history as we know it is a male construction. That women simply by being women (physically) WILL have a different interpretation of other things and since most historians have been men it is essentially their history that we learn. Damn, I forget her name! I am sure a philosophy student will know who. Well, her stuff may be relevant here.

was it Margaret Mead Kazem jaan?

Salam Be Hamegi

I have to submit an essay this week and i wanted to see if you guys could give me some ideas. I have started it already but im short on ideas.

here is the question

Are the moral experience of women and men fundamentally different in ways that would affect their interpretation and evaluation of choices and actions? How could you develop an analogues critique based on racial differences

I don't know if this is still going Amir but you must have been told about a certain segment of history or a geographical cross-section.

The moral experiences of humans are different based on many factors. I also think that moral experiences of the sexes are drastically different in most societies of the world, specifically relating to eastern cultures and tribal ones in some south american ad african regions.

If you are concentrating on our society and now then i tend to lean more towards the replies above. Nevertheless, still there are subtle differences on how women and men interpret morals in our society today. How much do they base their actions on these interpretations, well that depends on many environmental factors such as race, culture, religion, conscience etc.