ABSTRACT

From some of the great philosophers of the Western tradition: The Devils gateway --Tertullian A misbegotten male --Aquinas Big children their whole life long --Schopenhauer The roots of philosophical misogyny in the writings of thinkers from the ancient Greeks through the modern age are exposed and explored in this collection. Beverley Clack questions whether the wisdom of these philosophers can be separated from the misogyny, and whether feminists should seek an alternative to the Western philosophical canon. This collection offers chronological evidence of how the great male thinkers debated the question of woman, provides and introduction of each thinker. The philosophers included are: Plato, Aristotle, Tertullian, Augustine, Aquinas, Kramer, Sprenger, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Rousseau, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud, Weininger, Spengler and Lucas.

part |2 pages

PART ITHE GREEKS

chapter 1|17 pages

Plato

chapter 2|17 pages

Plato 132 Aristotle

part |2 pages

PART II THE CHURCH FATHERS

chapter 3|10 pages

Tertullian

chapter 4|15 pages

Augustine

chapter 5|9 pages

Thomas Aquinas

part |2 pages

PART III EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHERS

chapter 7|11 pages

René Descartes

chapter 8|6 pages

Thomas Hobbes

part |2 pages

PART IV TH E ENLIGHTENM ENT

chapter 10|9 pages

David Hume

chapter 11|17 pages

Immanuel Kant

chapter 12|14 pages

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

part |2 pages

PART V MISOGYNY IN TH E MODERN AGE

chapter 14|11 pages

Arthur Schopenhauer

chapter 15|3 pages

Friedrich Nietzsche

chapter 16|10 pages

Sigmund Freud

chapter 17|18 pages

Otto Weininger

chapter 18|4 pages

Oswald Spengler