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    It is not the case that Philosophers speculating about women ought to take into account the obstacles to women's opportunities for subjecthood and choice created by those who constructed an oppressive situation for women.

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    • 1.Universal moral principles derived from reason apply to all rational agents regardless of their situated social conditions, per Kantian deontology.
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    • 2.Grounding philosophical inquiry in historically contingent oppressive structures risks relativizing moral truth to particular social arrangements rather than discovering objective norms.
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    • 3.Rawls's veil of ignorance methodology deliberately abstracts from situated identities precisely to prevent parochial social facts from distorting foundational moral reasoning.
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    • 1.Nozick's libertarian framework holds that individuals possess inviolable rights that precede and constrain collective social arrangements, making structural oppression a political rather than philosophical-methodological problem.
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    • 2.Requiring philosophers to account for oppressive structures presupposes contested contestable claims about systemic causation that are themselves subjects of ongoing empirical and normative dispute.
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    • 1.A woman's position is deeply ambiguous, navigating a human condition defined in its relation with the Other.
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    • 2.To philosophize about women, it is indispensable to understand the economic and social structure in which women aim to be authentic or ethical.
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    • 3.Understanding women's situation necessitates an existential point of view, taking into account her total situation.
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