PHIL 123 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone De Beauvoir

• School: Emory University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 123
• Professor: Katherine Davies

Document Summary

Women are by nature inferior to men, and so less worthy of concern or less able to bene t from equal concern: 2. Sexism is hard to de ne, yet it"s everywhere. There"s this juxtaposition of racism and sexism: both fueled by systematic violence and economic disadvantage, both are dif cult to pinpoint, devastating psychological effects on individuals, inspire enormously powerful backlash when they are publicly challenged. Intrinsic racism: other races are inferior to your own race based on fear and hatred. Individuated extrinsic sexism: while women as a group are capable of carrying on this work, no individual woman is. Women are less able to clearly establish, both to themselves and to others. What you ght for is relative to the time period. Mary wollstonecraft: social factors, women are not inferior by nature, they deserve equal rights, this stream of popular thought stops women from being equal.