He didn't say that. Aquinas did. Aristotle merely recognized that they had both intellectual AND moral virtue but in both capacities were subordinated to man as part of the natural order.
The best translation of what Aristotle said is probably: "“Congenitally, the female is, as it were, an anomalous male”"
When Aristotle studied reproduction, semen, and so forth he was hampered as we have said. So he needed to rely on the science of logic which he had invented (the law of non-contradiction (A is not non-A), the law of identity (A is A), the law of excluded middle (either A or non-A), and the law of rational inference from what is known to what is unknown).
Brilliant, brilliant thinker. And after all these centuries people like you don't have a clue what logic means! Frightening, isn't it!? |
