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Full Idea
Women in general …have no civil personality.
Gist of Idea
Women have no role in politics
Source
Immanuel Kant (Metaphysics of Morals I: Doctrine of Right [1797], §46)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Political Writings', ed/tr. Reiss,Hans [CUP 1996], p.139
A Reaction
In case you were wondering. This is five years after Mary Wollstonecraft's book.
| 22530 | Both women and children should be educated, as this contributes to a city's excellence [Aristotle] |
| 21083 | Women have no role in politics [Kant] |
| 21006 | If women share rights with men, they will exhibit similar virtues [Wollstonecraft] |
| 22785 | Even educated women are unsuited to science, philosophy, art and government [Hegel] |
| 20746 | One is not born, but rather becomes a woman [Beauvoir] |
| 21012 | Women are often treated like children, and not respected for their choices [Nussbaum] |
| 21125 | Liberals must respect family freedom - but families are the great oppressors of women [Nussbaum] |
| 23428 | Difference feminists say women differ fundamentally from men [Dobson] |
| 20751 | As a young girl assumes her status as feminine, she acts in a more fragile immobile way [Young,IM] |
| 20551 | Men have had the power to structure all of our social institutions [Swift] |