Such a uniform and constant difference could not happen, in so many countries and ages, if nature had not made an original distinction between these breeds of men
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A woman who has a head full of Greek, like Mme. Dacier, or who carries on fundamental controversies about mechanics, like the Marquise de Chậtelet, might as well also wear a beard
As an Enlightenment philosopher, I am surprised at the narrow-mindedness Immanuel Kant exerts in this excerpt. Why could he not revisit the role of women during his so-called intellectual time of rebirth?
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It would be difficult to prove that women are incapable of exercising the rights of citizenship.
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Women are superior to men in the gentle and domestic virtues; they, as well as men, know how to love liberty, although they do not participate in all its advantages; and in republics they have been known to sacrifice themselves for it
I wonder if men during this time read this and took it as a personal attack toward their abilities in being a father/ man of the house?
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