Articulating my position as an expansion of Heidegger’s discussion of the being of Dasein through Levinas’ alterity as well as Ricoeur’s dual-axis self, I contest both the biological conclusions of patriarchical though that women are inferior to men because of biology or intellect as well as feminist assertions that separate women from men as objectifications which seek to eradicate the unity of difference natural to human sexual ethics. As Heidegger voices, the human condition into which we are born, male or female sex, is not a result of conscious choice of the will, but we find ourselves thrown into bodies, thus automatic identities and forms of relating between the genders. To separate one gender as superior to the other on the basis of sexual function is to objectify not one, but both genders,

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