Philosophy Without Women

Download or read book Philosophy Without Women written by Vigdis Songe-Møller and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of its history, western philosophy has regarded woman as an imperfect version of man. Like so many aspects of western culture, this tradition builds on foundations laid in ancient Greece. Yet the first philosophers of antiquity were hardly agreed on first principles. Songe-M°ller shows how the Greeks made intellectual choices that would prove fateful for half of humankind.