Golden Spriggat

[Tastidian]

It shouldn't be locked because some jackasses are spamming the topic.  It needs to remain open for people who actually have something to say about the topic. 

Must you call people that.

[bugfartboy]

It shouldn't be locked because some jackasses are spamming the topic.  It needs to remain open for people who actually have something to say about the topic. 

I just got done removing all of my off topic posts thus removing them from my count. Please get back on topic. I suggest you do the same namelesskitty.

The irony! That comment coming from our only user to hit 25 posts per day, (now at 23 something) by having useless conversations in threads where posts count. And the user who named himself presentiment. That is some serious hypocrisy right there.
Unfortunately, this is also a useless post. Apologies, but I believed it needed to be said.

I get around a lot.

[SmartyPants]

If Light Spriggats are females, then what female philosophers would they be named after?

[Tastidian]

A list of female philosophers ordered alphabetically by surname:

[spoiler]Marilyn McCord Adams (born 1943)O
Linda Martin Alcoff
Alice Ambrose (1906–2001)
Julia Annas
Marilena Chauí
G. E. M. Anscombe (1918–2001)C O R W
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)C O R W
Arete of Cyrene (4th century B.C.)
Aristoclea (6th century B.C)
Aspasia of Miletus (5th century B.C.)
Mary Astell (1666–1731)A B C D1 D2 R
Babette Babich (1956–)
Annette Baier (born 1929)O
Ban Zhao (c. 35–100)D2
Antoinette Brown (1825–1921)D2
Judith Butler (born 1956)
Mary Whiton Calkins (1863–1930)W
Nancy Cartwright (born 1943)O
Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673)A B C R
Christine de Pizan (c. 1365–c. 1430)G R
Andrea Christofidou
Patricia Churchland (born 1943)C
Hélène Cixous (born 1937)R
Catherine Trotter Cockburn (1679–1749)A B C R W
Lady Anne Finch Conway (1631–1679)A B C D1 O R W
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986)D1 O R W
Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749)R
Raya Dunayevskaya (1910–1987)
Dorothy Edgington
George Eliot (1819–1880)G R
Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618–1680)A B C R
Philippa Foot (born 1920)C O W
Margaret Gilbert
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
Marie de Gournay (1565–1645)D2
Celia Green (born 1935)
Marjorie Grene (born 1910)
Susan Haack (born 1945)W
Ágnes Heller (born 1929)
Heloise (1101–1162)D2
Mary Hesse (born 1924)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)D1 R
Hipparchia of Maroneia (4th century BC)
Jennifer Hornsby (born 1951)O
Rosalind Hursthouse
Hypatia of Alexandria (370–415)C R
Luce Irigaray (born 1930)C O R
Martha Klein
Christine Korsgaard
Julia Kristeva (born 1941)C O R
Susanne Langer (1895–1985)O R W
Michèle Le Dœuff (born 1948)O R
Leontion (4th century BC)
Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919)R
Catherine Macaulay (1731–1791)G
Penelope Maddy
Ruth Barcan Marcus (born 1921)C O
Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)R W
Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659–1708)A B C R
Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210–1285)G
Mary Midgley (born 1919)W
Ruth Millikan (born 1933)O
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999)O W
Ioanna Kucuradi (born 1936)
Nancey Murphy (born 1951)
Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820)D2
Martha Nussbaum (born 1947)C O
Onora O'Neill (born 1941)O W
Ayn Rand (January 20 1905 – March 6, 1982)
Janet Radcliffe Richards (born 1944)O
Rosemary Radford Ruether (born 1936)
Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678)D2 R
Lady Mary Shepherd (1777–1847)A C
Sor Juana (1648–1695)D2
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766–1817)R
L. Susan Stebbing (1885–1943)W
Edith Stein (1891–1942)D1
Gabrielle Suchon (1631–1703)R
Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858)C D1 R
Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)C
Judith Jarvis Thomson (born 1929)C O W
Baroness Mary Warnock (born 1924)O
Simone Weil (1909–1943)C D1 O R
Victoria Lady Welby (1837–1912)W
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)C D1 G O R W
Frances Wright (1795–1852)D2
Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894–1976)


Ofcourse this is all on wiki.

[/spoiler]

[SmartyPants]

Instead of a huge list of every female philosopher, is there any peticular names anyone likes?

[MikeW781]

I personally like Cartwright, but wonder if the philosophers should be from a specific era. All of the assassins were from the Enlightenment era.

[Tastidian]

Hypatia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia

[SmartyPants]

I like Hypatai.  Unlike Smith, this name points directly towards only one philosopher.

[bugfartboy]

Cavendish. I don't know, i just like it.

[KZ]

Good, the idea of Light female Spriggats remains!
Given that almost 80% of forum users would like to see them, and the number being close to 40 persons, I hope Craig will consider this, as it is certainly one of the more popular ideas around, and has been for the last 2 years!

As for female Spriggat names- they don't have to be philosophers at all, as can be seen from the names of Spriggats in TPA2. They can be writers, warriros, etc.
I'd think of Marie Curie, so a Spriggat by the name of Cruie could do the trick.
Historically, we have Joan of Arc, quite a significant figure in her time. Thus, "Arc" or "D'Ark" would be a good name (and ironic one at that).
How about also famous healers? Florence Nightingale, I think, would be highly appropriate. Thus: Nightingale.

[SmartyPants]

As for female Spriggat names- they don't have to be philosophers at all, as can be seen from the names of Spriggats in TPA2. They can be writers, warriros, etc.
I'd think of Marie Curie, so a Spriggat by the name of Cruie could do the trick.
Historically, we have Joan of Arc, quite a significant figure in her time. Thus, "Arc" or "D'Ark" would be a good name (and ironic one at that).
How about also famous healers? Florence Nightingale, I think, would be highly appropriate. Thus: Nightingale.

I agree with your suggestion to broden our search to names of all people who revolutionized new ways of thinking, but I don't particularly care for your three suggestions.

Hypatai is still my favoriate and Cartwright is a close second.

[KZ]

Fair enough, apart from "D'Ark" I don't quite see the names fitting, but they're good illustrative examples.

Don't like much Hypatai myself, but along those lines Cleopatra actually is something quite fitting, methinks.


(By the way, what's with the mis-spellings? "broden" "favoriate"? Only reason I point out is 'cause I rarely, if ever, get a feeling of you being rushed in your posts.)

[Tastidian]

Fair enough, apart from "D'Ark" I don't quite see the names fitting, but they're good illustrative examples.

Don't like much Hypatai myself, but along those lines Cleopatra actually is something quite fitting, methinks.


(By the way, what's with the mis-spellings? "broden" "favoriate"? Only reason I point out is 'cause I rarely, if ever, get a feeling of you being rushed in your posts.)

Cleopatra always was depicted as a very beautiful person. Greek goddess Persephone aka Kore kidnapped by Hades to become his wife and rescued by Hermes due to Demeter's(Kore's mother) endless wailing it finally Convinced Zeus to do something about it. Hermes by the way is my most favorite Greek god of all he is the messenger of the gods, escorts the dead, brings luck in his spare time, has a cape of invisibility, winged sandals, and has a wand that can make mortals sleep and I forgot the rest of the wands powers, also he seems more down to earth than that of the Greek Gods so is Apollo.

[bugfartboy]

But she was also cunning and ruthless. She used her beauty as a weapon. Evil.

[Tastidian]

But she was also cunning and ruthless. She used her beauty as a weapon. Evil.

So did Aphrodite. Sort of i'll tell the story later because I got to sleep.