> Midgley’s observation that ‘none of [the greatest] philosophers … had any experience of living with women or children’
Is this... right?
A cursory scan shows a fair number of major philosophers like Aristotle, Socrates, Berkeley, Spinoza, Reid, Hegel, Heidegger, Montesquieu, Husserl, Rousseau, Mill, Bacon and Machiavelli were married.
Perhaps none of them are among the greatest though.
Several of those philosophers had kids too. Hegel had 3, for example.
Heidegger was with Hannah Arendt for a while, and had several kids from previous relationships. Dude had a few affairs, and one of his kids probably wasn't his.
Is this... right?
A cursory scan shows a fair number of major philosophers like Aristotle, Socrates, Berkeley, Spinoza, Reid, Hegel, Heidegger, Montesquieu, Husserl, Rousseau, Mill, Bacon and Machiavelli were married.
Perhaps none of them are among the greatest though.