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...lecture entitled "Justice and the Family," Susan Moller Okin, associate professor of politics at Brandeis University, said that justice must originate in the family...
...necessary for the family to meet standards for justice," said Okin, who attended graduate school at Harvard. "Women will not find equality in any other sphere until we find equality in the family...
...Okin added that she wondered "how children can learn to behave justly without growing up under a just family...
...Okin challenged University of Chicago Philosophy Professor Allan Bloom, who argues in his best-selling book, "The Closing of the American Mind," that "the unjust family is natural...
Even when feminists deign to consider the classic thinkers of other social sciences, their arrogance is staggering, Susan Okin, for instance, in Women in Western Political Thought, describes John Stuart Mill as a "far-thinking feminist" but a limited thinker. Okin claims that Mill failed to consider adequately life outside the structure of the family. Fortunately feminist thinkers have transcended Mill's intellectual limitations...