POL320Y1 Lecture Notes - Bourgeoisie, Standing Army, Mary Wollstonecraft
28 Nov 2012
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Canon: big philosophers of western philosophy: the canon as misogynist. Explicit statements which modern people find problematic about women. Highlight the places where there are problematic view of women. How are these things important for the whole work. What do they say about women explicitly. Gen cons are common, people tend to think in contrasts, the sublime and the beautiful in burke. Can we identify in the his of western phil that is shaped by the fact that it was written by half of the population, different social experiences from the other half. Identify the hard core rationalism at the heart of west phil with men and them doing the philosophy. Associated with a certain gendered perspective of the world. How the fact that it was written by men influenced it: revision of the canon. Difficult thing to do, easier in modernity. Women were not being education, not in the position to articulate phil.
