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杜文秀 y1500392.　Based on the dialog above, please explain Medea’s strategy of gaining support from Aigeus and her characteristic in the perspective of female subject in Greek tragedies. 1)At first, she cringes before Aigeus with humble words and tries to earn Aigeus’ sympathy, later, she promises to satisfy his desire, because she knows what he is really lack of and his eagerness to have children.2)In Euripides’play?Medea?she is a woman scorned, rejected by her husband Jason and seeking revenge.The Nurse compares her to great forces of nature and different animals. She holds great power (forces of nature), she relies on her basic animal-like instincts and emotions ( bulls and lions). Some critics think Medea is a dichotomy of male and female.Medea does not fit into the mold that conforming to Athenian philosophy. She is very intelligent and skillful, especially, in the eyes of Euripides’ audiences, she has some trait of masculinity.?she uses that cunning to manipulate men,?which is not approved by Athenian audience.There is also the paradox of how she chooses murder. She poisons the princess, which is seen as a feminine way, yet kills her children in cold blood, which is more masculine. She also shows a strong maternal love to he children,Yet in the end she kills her children as a revenge. Despite her cruelty, she also feels ashamed of loving Jason and of murdering her brother. Why did Immanuel Kant call his philosophical explorations on human being’s reasons “a Copernican Revolution” in philosophy? Please explain the significance of Kant’s universalism in forming the western modern subject. You my want to give your explanation in consideration of the relation among science, philosophy and religion in Europe in the 18th century. Copernicus made a subversive presumption that earth circle around the sun. Inspired by him, Kant subvert the thinking and proposed that objective has to conform to the priori cognition of subjective(knowledge) instead of the converse. Which m