If you could have dinner with any philosopher, who would it be?
This a question today took me back to college study days… I delved into Socrates, Aristotle, Wollstonecraft, and others. Philosophers think deeply, who systematically study the fundamental questions concerning existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Across history they were even persecuted and put to death or shunned at times for their theories of religion, democracy, and society. I consider them to be the ones who heralded change, evolution, and helped build the world outside the box of what life is and can be. While they are all welcome to a chair at my dinner table. I would choose Mary Wollstonecraft to dine with me. Her radical life, two children out of wedlock, one who was a famous author, yes, the author was Mary Shelly, she wrote Frankenstein. Her work about women, advocating even back in 1792 when she wrote the “The Vindication of the Rights of Women. I would enjoy to see what she thinks of how the world has evolved and and how now, over 200 years after her book we, women, still are fighting to be equal, have the right to grow, move, work, and live a life where we are seen as more than property. She lived only 38 years, gave birth to a platform of the idea of women’s rights so long ago… 1792, lived in defiance of the norm and left a legacy. I think it would be an interesting conversation…


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