Women and Children and the Evolution of Philosophy

Abstract

Introduction:  As I was thinking about what I would say to you tonight, I remembered myself in my freshman year at a Catholic girls high school.  It was Spring and the nuns had told us that we would have a five-day retreat.  Speakers (priests) would come to speak to us in the mornings and the afternoons would be reserved for reflection and reading.  Of course, it was to be a silent retreat.  No talking for five days.