Life of Hypatia

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To quote Hypatia, “Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond” (BrainyQuote, 2013). April of 2012, I recall my niece who was then 16 years of age called me to ask for advices. She was growing fast, assertive on what she wanted to be and about her future goals. However she had a very serious problem. That kind of problem that almost every teenager is faced with. “Why is that all of my friends they criticize me for not doing what the do” she asked; and why is that every want me to be like them, and don’t want to let me be myself she followed. Few second of thinking, and I recalled a movie I watched couple months ago, titled “Agora”. It was a movie based on the life of Hypatia. She was a female mathematician and philosopher who lived and died upholding the principles. On this post, I will review the life of Hypatia noting her life stages in as they relate to cognitive, physical, and social-emotional developmental processes.
Hypatia was a mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who is more remembered by her death then on how she lived her life with emphasis to intellectual freedom and scientific inquiries. She was believed to be born in 350 in Alexandria, Egypt. Her father, Theon was a mathematician and astronomer. Under his tutorship, Hypatia learned mathematics and astronomy. In those days, women were not considered having the same intellectual capabilities as man, based on Aristotle teachings and misogyny. Fortunately for Hypatia, she had an enlightened father that was able to educate her, and making her the most influential female in her time. She is also known as...

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... that it is true that Hypetia had great social skills as demonstrated by her interaction with her followers and students. The fact that she did not get married has nothing to do with her upbringing, but had to do more with her ideology based on her Platonic views (Zielinski, 2010).

The more I travel into Hypatia life the more I have come to learn the truth about her life. This also helped me view her life in terms of cognitive, physical, social-emotional development processes. An accomplished scholar in her time, she was a prominent figure in mathematics and philosophy. And from her life we also learned that her growth support researchers studies which concluded that social and cultural influences shape cognitive development early in life, and social and cultural influences have a continued effect on cognitive development throughout the life span (Harris, 2005).

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