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| | * Johansson Obituary [http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/sol.1994.16.3.15?cookieSet=1&journalCode=sol.4] (Solgan 53, p 15) | | * Johansson Obituary [http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/sol.1994.16.3.15?cookieSet=1&journalCode=sol.4] (Solgan 53, p 15) |
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| | Vern Leroy Bullough (July 24, 1928 – June 21, 2006) was an American historian. He was a distinguished professor emeritus at the State University of New York (SUNY), an Outstanding Professor in the California State University, a past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, past Dean of natural and social sciences at the Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York, one of the founders of the American Association for the History of Nursing, and a member of the editorial board of Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia. | | Vern Leroy Bullough (July 24, 1928 – June 21, 2006) was an American historian. He was a distinguished professor emeritus at the State University of New York (SUNY), an Outstanding Professor in the California State University, a past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, past Dean of natural and social sciences at the Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York, one of the founders of the American Association for the History of Nursing, and a member of the editorial board of Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia. |
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| | The fact that Aristotle was probably not a pederast is a problem for Percy, but he explains this away by Aristotle's middle-class origins. | | The fact that Aristotle was probably not a pederast is a problem for Percy, but he explains this away by Aristotle's middle-class origins. |
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| − | :Not hailing from the pederastic high society of Athens, as Plato did, but from the provincial bourgeoisie, Aristotle was less inspired by the pederastic lyrics of Ibycus, Anacreon, Theognis, and Pindar, and being more biologically oriented, felt that pedcrasty, natural to some, was a vice acquired by others and limited the teleological potential of reproduction. | + | :Not hailing from the pederastic high society of Athens, as Plato did, but from the provincial bourgeoisie, Aristotle was less inspired by the pederastic lyrics of Ibycus, Anacreon, Theognis, and Pindar, and being more biologically oriented, felt that pederasty, natural to some, was a vice acquired by others and limited the teleological potential of reproduction. |
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| | Aristotle's great influence on the medieval scholastic tradition (which far outweighs that of Plato) presents a difficulty, but Percy rather skips over that, as we shall see. Percy ends the classical period with a short discussion on the Stoics and Epicureans, who were also pederasts. | | Aristotle's great influence on the medieval scholastic tradition (which far outweighs that of Plato) presents a difficulty, but Percy rather skips over that, as we shall see. Percy ends the classical period with a short discussion on the Stoics and Epicureans, who were also pederasts. |