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Title Visions of women : being a fascinating anthology with analysis of philosophers' views of women from ancient to modern times / edited and with an introduction by Linda A. Bell.

Imprint Clifton, N.J. : Humana Press, ©1983.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.4 V831V2    Check Shelf
Description xix, 489 pages ; 24 cm
Series Contemporary issues in biomedicine, ethics, and society
Contemporary issues in biomedicine, ethics, and society.
Note Includes index.
Contents Meno; The republic; Timaeus; Laws / Plato -- Economics / Xenophon -- Generation of animals; History of animals; Nichomachean ethics; Politics; On poetics / Aristotle -- "That women too should study philosophy"; "Should daughters receive the same education as sons?"; "On sexual indulgence"; "What is the chief end of marriage?"; "Is marriage a handicap for the pursuit of philosophy?"/ C. Musonius Rufus -- The apparel of women / Quintus Septimus Florens Tertullian -- Letters; Against Jovinianus / Jerome (Eusebius Hieronymus) -- The city of God; "Adulterous marriages" / Aurelius Augustine -- "Touching the origin of nuns" / Peter Abelard -- The book of women / Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon) -- The summa theologica / Thomas Aquinas -- Utopia; Letters / Thomas More -- In praise of folly; "The Abbot and the learned woman" / Desiderius Erasmus -- Instruction of a Christian woman; The learning of women -- Luis Vives -- "Of friendship"; "Of the affection of fathers for their children"; "Of three kinds of association"; "On some verses of Virgil" / Michel de Montaigne -- Philosophical elements of a true citizen; The elements of law / Thomas Hobbes -- Tractatus politicus / Baruch Spinoza -- Essay concerning the true original, extent, and end of civil government / John Locke -- A treatise of human nature; "Of the rise and progress of the arts and science"; "Of essay writing"; "Of love and marriage"; "Of the study of history" / David Hume -- Persian letters; The spirit of laws / Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montisquieu -- "Women" / Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire -- "On women"; 'Women"; Letter to his daughter / Denis Diderot -- "On women"; A discourse on the origin of inequality; A discourse on political economy; Emile / Jean-Jacques Rousseau --^On the admission of women to the rights of citizenship; Letters from a dweller in New Heaven to a citizen of Virginia / Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet -- Vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft -- The philosophy of law; Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and the sublime; Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view / Immanuel Kant -- The science of rights / J.G. Fichte -- The phenomenology of mind; Philosophy of right / G.W.F. Hegel -- "On women"; "Position, or a man's place in the estimation of others"; "Ideas concerning the intellect"; "On jurisprudence and politics"; "Psychological remarks"; The world as will and idea / Arthur Schopenhauer -- The positive philosophy; System of positive philosophy / Auguste Comte -- The subjection of women / John Stuart Mill -- The origin of the family, private property and the state / Frederick Engels -- Stages of life's way; Works of love; Journals and papers / Soren Kierkegaard -- Woman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller Ossoli -- "Discourse on woman" / Lucretia Mott -- "The Greek woman"; Beyond good and evil; Human, all-too-human; The joyful wisdom; Thus spake Zarathustra; The twilight of the idols; The antichrist; Ecce Homo; The will to power / Friedrich Nietzsche -- "The tasks of the working women's movement in the Soviet Republic" / V.I. Lenin -- Letter; On certain limitations of the thoughtful public in America / Josiah Royce -- The principles of psychology; Review: Bushnell's "Women's suffrage" and Mill's "Subjection of women" / William James -- The lady / Emily James Putnam -- "Victims of morality"; "The tragedy of women's emancipation"; "The traffic in women"; "Marriage and love" / Emma Goldman -- Woman's share in social culture / Anna Garlin Spencer -- Women in economics; The home; The man-made world; His religion and hers / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The life of reason / George Santayana -- Sex and character / Otto Weininger --Marriage and morals / Bertrand Russell -- "Toward an idea of man"; "On the meaning of the women's movement" / Max Scheler -- Letters to Eddison; Mere Christianity / C.S. Lewis -- The ethics of ambiguity; The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- Man and people; On love / Jose Ortega y Gasset -- Metaphysical anthropology / Julian Marias -- Maryellen MacGuigan: "Is woman a question?"
Summary This anthology contains various philosopher's viewpoints of women from ancient to modern times.
Subject Woman (Philosophy)
Philosophical anthropology.
Philosophy. (DNLM)D010684
Women. (DNLM)D014930
Philosophical anthropology. (OCoLC)fst01060766
Woman (Philosophy) (OCoLC)fst01176559
Vrouwen.
Frau (DE-588)4018202-2
Philosophie (DE-588)4045791-6
Quelle (DE-588)4135952-5
Frau.
Genre/Form Essay. (DNLM)D020474
Added Author Bell, Linda A.
ISBN 089603044X
9780896030442
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