FEMALE PHILOSOPHERS

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Everyone knows that women are as smart as men and perhaps smarter. The following ladies may make it easier to prove my point.

Ahilyabai Holkar, queen of the Malwa kingdom in north-west central India, part of the Maratha empire, died on 13 August 1795, having reigned for nearly 30 years. She came to power in 1767, after the death of her father-in-law, Malhar Rao Holkar, and her young, sickly son. (Her husband had died in battle in 1754.)

The Daily reminds us all our world has always belonged to males,” Simone de Beauvoir wrote in her 1949 book The Second Sex. The same, sadly, may be said of the canon of Western philosophy and of the composition of academic philosophy departments, even today. No online listicle can hope to form a complete (or really even adequate) accounting of the profound contribution of women thinkers in shaping the trajectory of the Enlightenment, perhaps especially not one written by me, yet another male philosophy graduate. Nevertheless, no history of Western philosophical thought would be complete without these three women.

https://daily.jstor.org/3-women-philosophers-of-the-enlightenment/

According to the Greek Reporter, women have helped shape modern thought. When we conjure up ancient Greek philosophers the image that springs to mind might be a bald Socrates discoursing with young men in the sun, or a scholarly Aristotle lecturing among cool columns.
 

https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/13/ancient-greek-female-philosophers/

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