Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
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François-Marie Arouet Voltaire
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Denis Diderot
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Immanuel Kant
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J. G. Fichte
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G. W. F. Hegel
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Auguste Comte
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John Stuart Mill
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Frederick Engels
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Søren Kierkegaard
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Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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Lucretia Mott
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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V.I. Lenin
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Josiah Royce
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William James
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People of Socrates' time were frequently aghast at the questions he would ask. Their responses were of the sort elicited by very dumb or ex tremely obvious questions: "Don't you know? Everyone else does. " Socrates was hardly alone in his knack for asking such questions. Phi losophers have always asked peculiar questions most other people would never dream of asking, convinced as the latter are that the answers were settled long ago in the collective "wisdom" of society, including ques tions about woman: should women be educated? should they rule socie ties? should they be subordinate in marriage? do women and men have the same virtues, or are there separate virtues for each? which of the dif ferences between women and men are conventional, and which are natu ral? is there a woman's work? do women and men have different types or degrees of rationality? Philosophers of the most diverse periods have raised these questions and their answers were often quite creative, not merely reflecting the conventions and mores of their societies. With the publication of this anthology, their writings will be brought together in a single volume for the first time. This anthology differs from others not just in its inclusiveness. It also contains several translations of material previously unavailable in English.

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Book Title: Visions of Women
Book Subtitle: Being a Fascinating Anthology with Analysis of Philosophers’ Views of Women from Ancient to Modern Times
Editors: Linda A. Bell
Series Title: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5304-4
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-044-2Published: 03 October 1983
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-054-1Published: 03 October 1983
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-5304-4Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 490
Topics: Ethics

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