Author : Sophia
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 1751
Category :
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Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466804270
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 2000-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 113945935X
In this major book Martha Nussbaum, one of the most innovative and influential philosophical voices of our time, proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international, argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and dramatically moves beyond the abstractions of economists and philosophers to embed thought about justice in the concrete reality of the struggles of poor women. Nussbaum argues that international political and economic thought must be sensitive to gender difference as a problem of justice, and that feminist thought must begin to focus on the problems of women in the third world. Taking as her point of departure the predicament of poor women in India, she shows how philosophy should undergird basic constitutional principles that should be respected and implemented by all governments, and used as a comparative measure of quality of life across nations.
Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0679724516
The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.
Author : Myra Reynolds
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Elizabeth Blackwell
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Elizabeth Blackwell, though born in England, was reared in the United States and was the first woman to receive a medical degree here, obtaining it from the Geneva Medical College, Geneva, New York, in 1849. A pioneer in opening the medical profession to women, she founded hospitals and medical schools for women in both the United States and England. She was a lecturer and writer as well as an able physician and organizer. -- H.W. Orr.
Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3849649741
In 1790 came that "extraordinary outburst of passionate intelligence," Mary Wollstonecraft's reply to Edmund Burke's attack on the principles of the French Revolution entitled a "Vindication of the Rights of Men." In this pamphlet she held up to scorn Burke's defence of monarch and nobility, his merciless sentimentality. "It is one of the most dashing political polemics in the language," Mr. Taylor writes enthusiastically, "and has not had the attention it deserves. . . . For sheer virility and grip of her verbal instruments it is probably the finest of her works. Some of her sentences have the quality of a sword-edge, and they flash with the rapidity of a practised duellist. It was written at a white heat of indignation; yet it is altogether typical of the writer that, in the midst of the work, quite suddenly, she had one of her fits of callousness and morbid temper, and declared she would not go on. With great skill Johnson persuaded her to take it up again; and with equal suddenness her eagerness returned, and the book was finished and published before any one else could answer Burke."
Author : John Gregory
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 1774
Category : Christian education
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Author : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Publisher :
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : George Herbert Box
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Apocalypse of Abraham
ISBN :
