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All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear s… - John Stuart Mill
" "All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn. The entire history of social improvement has been a series of transitions, by which one custom or institution after another, from being a supposed primary necessity of social existence, has passed into the rank of a universally stigmatised injustice and tyranny. So it has been with the distinctions of slaves and freemen, nobles and serfs, patricians and plebeians; and so it will be, and in part already is, with the aristocracies of colour, race, and sex.
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John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), also known as J. S. Mill, was an English political philosopher and economist who was an advocate of utilitarianism.
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All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.
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Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt.
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این ادّعا که طبیعت دو جنس آنها را با وظایف و جایگاه کنونیشان انطباق میدهد و این وظایف را برای آنان مناسب میسازد، نیز فایدهای در بر ندارد. من با تکیه بر عقل سلیم و سرشت ذهن بشر، به هیچ روی نمیتوانم بپذیرم که کسی طبیعت این یا آن جنس را بشناسد، و یا اصولا شناخت طبیعت آنها امکانپذیر باشد. طبیعت این دو، مادام که مناسبات کنونی را با هم دارند، قابل شناخت نیست.
اگر مردان در جامعهای بدون زن، و زنان در جامعهای بدون مرد بهسر برده بودند، و یا اگر جامعهای شکل گرفته بود که در آن زنان زیر سلطهی مردان نبودند، آنگاه میتوانستیم دربارهی تفاوتهای ذهنی و اخلاقیای سخن بگوییم که احتمالا از طبیعت آنان سرچشمه میگیرند. آنچه را امروز طبیعت زنانه مینامند، چیزی یکسره تصنّعیست، زیرا محصول سرکوب در بعضی جهات و تشویق و ترغیب در جهاتی دیگر است.
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