Tradition
Women in philosophy
Overview
philosophical discourse in women
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When two persons have their thoughts and speculations completely in common; when all subjects of intellectual or moral interest are discussed between them in daily life, and probed to much greater depths than are usually or conveniently sounded in writings intended for general readers; when they set out from the same principles, and arrive at their conclusions by processes pursued jointly, it is of little…
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
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It is also to be considered, that all the education which women receive from society inculcates on them the feeling that the individuals connected with them are the only ones to whom they owe any duty--the only ones whose interest they are called upon to care for; while, as far as education is concerned, they are left strangers even to the elementary ideas which are presupposed in any intelligent regard for larger…
John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
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Such abstinence, even when the arrangements of society may leave it optional, is still more desirable in their case than in the case of philosophers. Active life, incompatible as it is with the clearness and breadth of philosophic speculation, is even more injurious to delicacy of feeling, which is women’s highest claim to our respect and the true secret of their influence. The philosophic spirit is incompatible…
Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life
Close in meaning to Women in philosophy; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Émilie du Châtelet
- Edmund Burke
- Feminist theory
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Feminism
- Foundationalism
- Ancient philosophy
- Germany
- American Philosophical Association
- Anarchism
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Philippa Foot
- Women's rights
- Isaac Newton
- Immanuel Kant
- Power (social and political)
- Judith Butler
- Individualism
- Atheism
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy.