Titlebook: Women Philosophers from Non-western Traditions: The First Four Thousand Years; Mary Ellen Waithe,Therese Boos Dykeman Book 2023 The Editor

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,Ban Zhao of China 班昭 45–116 CE,ophy is to be acquainted not only with her prose such as . but with her poetry such as “The Needle and Thread” and “Rhapsody on Traveling Eastward.” Her ethics, for example, is formulated in her advice in poetry to her son as well as in her advice to her daughter in prose. Thus, in order to inquire

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,Sulabha of India सुलभ , 800 BCE, lived. The account of their discussion is reported in the epic .. Their debate covers many philosophical issues including the nature of being, of personhood, of certainty, and of women’s capacity for enlightenment. In that regard we find Suhabha arguing that “My body is different from your body. Bu

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, 紫式部 ,into, Japanese versions of Mayahana Buddhism (Tendai and Shigon), as well as Confucianism and its Daoist foundations. Murasaki’s great philosophical epic novel, . (.), her diary. and her . (.) discuss metaphysical issues such as the nature of being, women’s souls, women’s rights, the nature of love,

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,Akka Mahadevi of India , , 1130–, 1160,dieval India. In this chapter I describe her contributions to Hindu philosophy against the background of the emergence of the Lingayot movement. A radical, she was a philosopher of Virasaivism and became known as “the naked saint”. Her writings are today considered to be less radical than relevant i

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,Im Yunjidang of Korea 任允摯堂 1721–1793,Confucian classics, cultivating themselves, and thereby becoming “female sages.” Throughout her varied writings, she defends this idea, offering highly original, powerful interpretations of a range of philosophical issues and historical cases that bring out neglected aspects of Confucian moral life.