Én af de første mandlige feminister

February 7, 2010 by Hammerschmidt

John Stuart Mill var en filosof ovre fra den tågede atlanterhavsø, som mente at kvinder burde have stemmeret.

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Mill can be considered one of the first male feminists

Bemærkelsesværdigt at en person, som går ind for statens magt og indflydelse skal begrænses til fordel for det enkelte individ, kan mene det hensigtsmæssigt, at staten (ud fra hans eget forslag) bør tvinge kvindestemmeret ned over den mandlige britiske befolkning. Dermed kan man sige, at han jo i grunden også er én af ophavsmændene til statsfeminismen.

He said that social liberty was “the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual”. It was attempted in two ways: first, by obtaining recognition of certain immunities, called political liberties or rights; second, by establishment of a system of "constitutional checks".

However, limiting the power of government is not enough. "Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.”

Billedet er taget fra bogen Ergo; naturvidenskabens filosofiske historie, side 221