Susanna Krizo

One more thought on the concept of eros love: where do you think we find the concept that a relationship between a man and woman must consist of inequality? It is not from the Bible, that’s for sure; it comes straight from Aristotle’s Nicomachean ethics where he argues that although two men can have a friendship of equality, the relationship between a man and a woman consists always of inequality, the woman being by nature inferior to the man.
Food for thougth: why do you thin Islam is patriarchal? It is not because of the prophet Muhammad. It is because Islamic scholars studied Aristotle for centuries (they called him “the Philosopher”, as did Jewish scholars. It is ironic that the one thing the crusaders brought back from the east was Aristotle’s writings, which scholastic theologians synthesized with medieval theology. That the man should rule is found in all religions and philosophical movements and it is not a coincidence.