PHIL 115 Lecture Notes - On Liberty, Correspondence Theory Of Truth, Empiricism
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It was difficult to challenge common opinion about anything, and philosophers have to challenge them. Those opinions that are self-evidently stupid now were probably commonly accepted ideas from the past. Women are not well-suited to working in the medical, business, legal, political, and scientific professions. This is because women are on average less intellectually capable than men. Mill implicitly grants that some women are more capable than others, sometimes moreso than men. In the arts, some women have surpassed the achievements of male artists. In philosophy, women are not prominent because of the limited opportunities presented to women in the ancient intellectual world: maybe this isn"t a bad thing. Men seem as fit for political power as men. Women are believed have a more nervous temperament than men. They are believed to be better multitaskers: whether this is true or not, it is irrelevant. All these hypotheses are speculations and not empirically demonstrable.
