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(2017) Catching up with Aristotle, Dordrecht, Springer.
This chapter argues that as female "mothering" created the human way of being, it is now up to female "mothering" to save humankind, which presently is facing huge and imminent dangers. Described is how in history each upcoming class brought something to the table of human wealth and progress: The feudal class a focus on accumulation, the bourgeois class a focus on investment, and the working class a focus on distribution. Now, in the fateful Anthropocene Age, a focus on the preservation of humankind's gains is essential. Following a discussion of the basic biological difference between males and females, preservation is shown to be the preserve of mothers, which burdens the upcoming gender with an unprecedented historical responsibility. The chapter ends with a call for women to lift that burden.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51088-0_12
Full citation:
Engelsted, N. (2017). Looking toward the future, in Catching up with Aristotle, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 113-116.
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