Sublime

Mary’s “trespass”—her insistence that women’s rights be included in a society founded on the basis of personal liberties—was one of her most important contributions to political philosophy and what would come to be known as feminism.

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And when we say WOMEN, we think FEMALE—the sex.

To call them the weaker sex is to utter a hideous mockery.

very little achievement is required in order to pity another man’s shortcomings.

Editors’ Preface

Musonius’ priorities on social issues were clearly very different from Seneca’s. He takes a genuinely original line in combatting what he presents as social abuses, such as the exposure of unwanted babies, and in arguing that women, as well as men, ought to study philosophy; their minds are no different, no worse.

self-sacrificing, patient queen of the domestic realm, who assumed the moral education of her children, was born in the eighteenth century. The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau deserves considerable credit for her creation.