They have moral and ethical force. They are ex clusive, entrenched, enduring, and self-perpetuating. Re-examination of standards and values of the canon. I am a philosophy professor who is interested in feminism. I work on Aristotle, a great philosopher who has an attitude problem he is a notorious sexist.
Women contribute nothing but matter to their offspring.
The virtue of men lies in commanding, that of women in obeying. I have just published a book, Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle , in the new series Re-Reading the Canon . This is a series of 25 volumes devoted to feminist reading of canonical philosophers, edited by Nancy Tuana. The series so far includes books about Plato, Hegel, Hannah Arendt, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Simone de Beauvoir.