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.
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