Volume 34, Number 17 · November 5, 1987
Undemocratic Vistas
By Martha C. Nussbaum
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students
by Allan Bloom
Simon and Schuster, 392 pp., $18.95
Asked whether women as well as men should study philosophy, the distinguished Roman Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus, teacher of Epictetus, replied as follows:
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