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In article <1992Nov11.010102.14565@cheshire.oxy.edu>, rooney@cheshire.oxy.edu (Michael Sean Rooney) writes:

|> 	Secondly, you seem to be implicitly claiming that a true
|> philosophy worthy of the name should be politically neutral, equally
|> acceptable to both followers of Rand and Marx.  This foolishness
|> merely betrays the ethically irresponsible legacy of Wittgenstein's
|> disconnection of transcendental philosophy from the world. [1]  
|> That feminism seeks some connections between thought and practice
|> is no vice.

"Ethically irresponsible legacy of Wittgenstein's disconnection of
trancendental philosophy from the world"?  Well, I guess that ices
the cake. I did not, by the way, claim that a true philosophy worthy
of the name (whatever that means) should be politically neutral.
I posed a question concerning how *uniform* the political philosophy
of so-called "feminist philosophy" is and how *central* a given
perspective seems to be.  The implicit question, of course, is
what comes first:  a committment to a particular philosophy for which
one then concocts a new discipline to serve as a vehicle of expression,
or the genuine identification of a new discipline and the discovery
that virtually all of its acolytes happen to cleave to a particular
political philosophy.

Thanks are due Ruth Ginzberg for the correct and full reference to
"APA (American Philosophical Association) NEWSLETTER ON FEMINISM
AND PHILOSOPHY".  This may be difficult for the average reader to
get ahold of, but I *do* recommend highly (and seriously) that
people interested in the concept of feminist philosophy look at
this.  It is almost (but not quite, I admit) as entertaining as
some of the papers given at recent MLA meetings.

|> [1] Not to give Ludwig too much credit: these ideas are inherited
|> from his hidden inspiration, Schopenhauer.

Oh goody!  Footnotes in a usenet posting!  Schopenhauers hidden
influence on Wittgenstein.  Intriguing.

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