the chapter on the history of Western philosophy’s view on women was particularly disturbing - in summary, women aren’t people.
e.g. Aristotle thought women were naturally mutilated, deformed versions of men. Hegel compared women to plants.
The idea of women being worthy of literacy and education, let alone being a professional like a lawyer, are all shockingly recent changes.
i wan to think lik a woman.
- human-centered
- reasonabl
- empathetic
.,.,.-.,
Wow, invalidating my gender. Thanks.
did i… invalidate?.. if i did, im vrri sorry, but im… unsure what exactly you mean by that…
Being a woman who prides myself on not being two of those things, and not seeing much point in the other.
It was a joke, you see.
oh… okay, then… i - i hope it really was a joke…
thank you for telling me!
As much as I hate Plato, he was so much better on that than Aristotle
really, I don’t know that I’m aware of Plato’s views on women…
That all people, including women and people from lower class, should get education if they possess skill in intellectual pursuits. He was more meritocratic in how he envisioned his hierarchical society, which is part of why he had such an impact on liberal philosophy.
At the same time he proposed the radically meritocratic system under which you don’t get to have a say at all in how things work if the system doesn’t deem you smart enough. He did some real good, but his (and Aristotle’s) authority was too overblown for yoo logn
My grandmother was the first person in her family to go to college. A teaching school, something that was deemed acceptable at the time. I knew my great grandmother, but I was too young to ask her about that. I wish I could ask her about such things. Born in the very early 1900s, amazing.
