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Schopenhauer continually portrays women as petty, childish, quarrelsome, frivolous, immoral, deceitful, and as being (altogether) the moral, intellectual and physical inferiors of man. He does, however, see women as being more pragmatic and realistic than men, but he attributes this mainly to what he sees as their greater materialism and lack of idealism. He states that women's fundamental flaw is their lack of justice, which he attributed to their deficiency of reasoning and also them being adapted by nature to rely on guile (namely their manipulation of men), rather than strength and intellect, to achieve their ends. | Schopenhauer continually portrays women as petty, childish, quarrelsome, frivolous, immoral, deceitful, and as being (altogether) the moral, intellectual and physical inferiors of man. He does, however, see women as being more pragmatic and realistic than men, but he attributes this mainly to what he sees as their greater materialism and lack of idealism. He states that women's fundamental flaw is their lack of justice, which he attributed to their deficiency of reasoning and also them being adapted by nature to rely on guile (namely their manipulation of men), rather than strength and intellect, to achieve their ends. | ||
He concludes the essay by criticizing the institution of [[monogamy]] (which he, in any case, views as a falsity, arguing that [[polygyny]] is the natural state of man), and calls for the widespread legalization and implementation of polygamy in Europe, praising the Mormon's (at the time) practice of polygamy. He also calls for women to lose many of their legal rights, such as inheritance of property of their partners or fathers, or indeed legal guardianship over their children, with Schopenhauer arguing that women are mere children themselves who will always squander their late husbands wealth on mere vanities. He argues that women should not be guardians of children, as they themselves are dependents that require a guardian. | He concludes the essay by criticizing the institution of [[monogamy]] (which he, in any case, views as a falsity, arguing that [[polygyny]] is the natural state of man), and calls for the widespread legalization and implementation of polygamy in Europe, praising the Mormon's (at the time) practice of polygamy. He also calls for women to lose many of their legal rights, such as inheritance of property of their partners or fathers, or indeed legal guardianship over their children, with Schopenhauer arguing that women are [[neoteny|mere children]] themselves who will always squander their late husbands wealth on mere vanities. He argues that women should not be guardians of children, as they themselves are dependents that require a guardian. | ||
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