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<div>[[Image:Socrates.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Greek philosopher Socrates]]<br />
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'''Socrates''' was an ancient [[Greek]] philosopher, who lived between approximately 470 and 399 BC. He is best known for his method of argument, which poses questions that may expose logical errors underlying an opponent's argument, though he usually stated that his purpose was not to argue but to pursue the truth in alliance with his opponent. Socrates had served in the army in his youth, like all Greek men of his time. To modern readers he is most familiar as a character in many books by his disciple [[Plato]] or his contemporary [[Xenophon]]. If Socrates wrote any books himself they are lost. Eventually the courts of [[Athens]] found him guilty on charges of impiety and corrupting the youth, and forced him to drink [[hemlock]], a poison that took his life. Socrates had an opportunity to escape from prison, but declined to do so. <ref>http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/socratesbio.html</ref><br />
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Some famous Socrates quotes:<ref>http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Socrates</ref><br />
*Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.<br />
*Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.<br />
*Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.<br />
*I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.<br />
*The unexamined life is not worth living.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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*[[Aristotle]]<br />
*[[Plato]]<br />
*[[Raphael]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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Plato, Christopher Gill, ''The Symposium''. London: Penguin Books, 1999<br />
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<div>'''Gender''' is the attribute of being either [[male]] or [[female]]. Gender differs from sex in that while sex deals with the biological attributes of male and female, gender may be understood more as a cultural concept and a complex set of learned behaviors that is contingent not only on culture, but also on history. Gender roles and expectations are always in flux and vary from one society to another and one time to another. Thus, the qualities and behaviors expected of [[women]] by a particular society at a particular historical time is called [[femininity]]; [[masculinity]] is what is expected of [[men]] in a particular cultural and historical setting.<br />
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An organism's sex category reflects its biological reproductive function rather than its sexuality or other behavior. The female sex is defined as the one which produces the larger gamete(egg) and which typically bears the offspring. In contrast, the male sex has a smaller gamete(sperm) and rarely bears offspring. In some animals, sex may be assigned to specific structures rather than the entire organism. Earthworms, for example, are normally hermaphrodites.<br />
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Alternately, "gender" may be defined to be the norm of social conduct, based on sex. That is, "sex" defines what is biologically present, whereas "gender" defines what society expects of persons of different sexes. The distinction is important: the law tends to forbid discrimination on the basis of both (effeminate men cannot be fired for not acting according to their "gender"), but matters in terms of more abstracted social and legal arguments.<br />
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