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How To Think Like A Woman by Regan Penaluna

Hugo Whately argues that analysing the problems of philosophy’s history is doing philosophy.

At the start of her career in philosophy, Regan Penaluna thought that “contemplating eternal truths” was the “closest a human could come to immortality” (How To Think Like A Woman, pp.248-9), by reflecting “human thought at its greatest magnitude… [embodying] a culture’s quest for truth and self-knowledge” (p.xii). Fired up and harbouring idealistic dreams, she starts out wanting to think like her philosophy professors. However, in a lecture, her male professor quotes approvingly, proudly even, Plato’s view of women being unfit to rule.

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