Yes, immensely so. Specifically what he was likely to be reading or studying. Very specifically, would he have been able to get his mits on Plutarch's writings on women like:
So it is ridiculous to maintain that women have no participation in virtue. What need is there to discuss their prudence and intelligence, or their loyalty and justice, when many women have exhibited a daring and great-hearted courage which is truly masculine?
Sorry, biological determinism is my pet skeeve at the moment, and I run into the Erotikus almost by accident, and then I couldn't help thinking, goodness I wonder if Robespierre read that. From it's title it doesn't seem like the sort of book they'd be encouraging boys to read.
I'm not going to do anything as horrible as turn Robespierre into a teenage feminist, I was just thinking, well, was there a moment when the idea that humanity was mutable became real?
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Date: 2010-05-05 06:50 am (UTC)Yes, immensely so. Specifically what he was likely to be reading or studying. Very specifically, would he have been able to get his mits on Plutarch's writings on women like:
So it is ridiculous to maintain that women have no participation in virtue. What need is there to discuss their prudence and intelligence, or their loyalty and justice, when many women have exhibited a daring and great-hearted courage which is truly masculine?
Sorry, biological determinism is my pet skeeve at the moment, and I run into the Erotikus almost by accident, and then I couldn't help thinking, goodness I wonder if Robespierre read that. From it's title it doesn't seem like the sort of book they'd be encouraging boys to read.
I'm not going to do anything as horrible as turn Robespierre into a teenage feminist, I was just thinking, well, was there a moment when the idea that humanity was mutable became real?