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- From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)
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- Subject: Re: Plato's Views on Women
- Keywords: politics, women, feminism
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- Date: 11 Nov 92 14:09:29 GMT
- References: <Bx9JK3.35s@quake.sylmar.ca.us> <7894@skye.ed.ac.uk> <BxIKsp.Gt3@unx.sas.com> <1992Nov11.010102.14565@cheshire.oxy.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov11.010102.14565@cheshire.oxy.edu>, rooney@cheshire.oxy.edu (Michael Sean Rooney) writes:
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- |> 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.
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- "Ethically irresponsible legacy of Wittgenstein's disconnection of
- trancendental philosophy from the world"? Well, I guess that ices
- the cake. I did not, by the way, claim that a true philosophy worthy
- of the name (whatever that means) should be politically neutral.
- I posed a question concerning how *uniform* the political philosophy
- of so-called "feminist philosophy" is and how *central* a given
- perspective seems to be. The implicit question, of course, is
- what comes first: a committment to a particular philosophy for which
- one then concocts a new discipline to serve as a vehicle of expression,
- or the genuine identification of a new discipline and the discovery
- that virtually all of its acolytes happen to cleave to a particular
- political philosophy.
-
- Thanks are due Ruth Ginzberg for the correct and full reference to
- "APA (American Philosophical Association) NEWSLETTER ON FEMINISM
- AND PHILOSOPHY". This may be difficult for the average reader to
- get ahold of, but I *do* recommend highly (and seriously) that
- people interested in the concept of feminist philosophy look at
- this. It is almost (but not quite, I admit) as entertaining as
- some of the papers given at recent MLA meetings.
-
- |> [1] Not to give Ludwig too much credit: these ideas are inherited
- |> from his hidden inspiration, Schopenhauer.
-
- Oh goody! Footnotes in a usenet posting! Schopenhauers hidden
- influence on Wittgenstein. Intriguing.
-
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