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- From: rooney@cheshire.oxy.edu (Michael Sean Rooney)
- Subject: Re: Plato's Views on Women
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.010102.14565@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Summary: Gary, be more respectful of other fields
- Keywords: politics, women, feminism
- Sender: rooney@oxy.edu
- Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:01:02 GMT
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- In article <BxIKsp.Gt3@unx.sas.com> sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill) writes:
- >
- >
- >As another teaser, have you ever wondered why the "feminist philosophers"
- >all seem to have a certain political perspective -- as though this
- >somehow is a part of the essential nature of feminism or feminist
- >philosophy? If you want to get a job as a "feminist philosopher" you
- >not only have to teach "feminist issues", but you have to teach them
- >in a certain *way*, from a certain point of view. Any feminist
- >philosophers out there who are Ayn Rand followers? Any feminist
- >philosophers who would, under any objective criterion, be considered
- >"right" of center rather than "left"?
- >
-
- Two comments.
-
- Gary, you're really only highlighting your willingness
- to argue issues you have little substantive knowledge of here. The
- political differences between, say, Irigaray, Okin, Fraser, and Daly
- (to take four prominent feminist philosophers of diverse schools)
- are probably much wider than those separating, e.g., Rorty and
- Putnam.
-
- Secondly, you seem to be implicitly claiming that a true
- philosophy worthy of the name should be politically neutral, equally
- acceptable to both followers of Rand and Marx. This foolishness
- merely betrays the ethically irresponsible legacy of Wittgenstein's
- disconnection of transcendental philosophy from the world. [1]
- That feminism seeks some connections between thought and practice
- is no vice.
-
- [1] Not to give Ludwig too much credit: these ideas are inherited
- from his hidden inspiration, Schopenhauer.
-
- Cordially,
-
- Michael S. Rooney
-