Mary Astell: Theorist of Freedom from DominationPhilosopher, theologian, educational theorist, feminist and political pamphleteer, Mary Astell was an important figure in the history of ideas of the early modern period. Among the first systematic critics of John Locke's entire corpus, she is best known for the famous question which prefaces her Reflections on Marriage: 'If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?' She is claimed by modern Republican theorists and feminists alike but, as a Royalist High Church Tory, the peculiar constellation of her views sits uneasily with modern commentators. Patricia Springborg's study addresses these apparent paradoxes, recovering the historical and philosophical contexts to her thought. She shows that Astell was not alone in her views; rather, she was part of a cohort of early modern women philosophers who were important for the reception of Descartes and who grappled with the existential problems of a new age. |
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... Discourse Concerning the Love of God Astell , Drake , Education , Epistemology and the Serious Proposal 1. A Serious Proposal , Text and Context 2. Drake , Swift , Wotton and the Battle between the Ancients and Moderns page xi xiii xiii ...
... Discourse Concerning the Love of God Astell , Drake , Education , Epistemology and the Serious Proposal 1. A Serious Proposal , Text and Context 2. Drake , Swift , Wotton and the Battle between the Ancients and Moderns page xi xiii xiii ...
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... Hobbes - in the Second Discourse , On the Origins of Inequality , a work that , in its distinction between ' bourgeois ' and ' citoyen ' , may be read as anticipating Marx , in On the 16 Introduction : Astell and Early Modern Feminism.
... Hobbes - in the Second Discourse , On the Origins of Inequality , a work that , in its distinction between ' bourgeois ' and ' citoyen ' , may be read as anticipating Marx , in On the 16 Introduction : Astell and Early Modern Feminism.
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... Discourses upon the Beatitudes , of 1690 - a work that was to run to fifteen editions by 1728.12 There Norris had expounded Malebranche's doctrine of ' occasionalism ' in order to refute Locke , from whom it prompted a written response ...
... Discourses upon the Beatitudes , of 1690 - a work that was to run to fifteen editions by 1728.12 There Norris had expounded Malebranche's doctrine of ' occasionalism ' in order to refute Locke , from whom it prompted a written response ...
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... Discourse Concerning the Love of God ( 1696 ) . It is not difficult to see Norris's influence on the subsequent devel- opment of Astell's thought and her animus against Locke , in particular his theory of the association of ideas ...
... Discourse Concerning the Love of God ( 1696 ) . It is not difficult to see Norris's influence on the subsequent devel- opment of Astell's thought and her animus against Locke , in particular his theory of the association of ideas ...
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... Discourse on Method ( 1637 ) , prefacing three treatises on mathematics and physics , had been followed by his Meditations on First Philosophy ( 1641 ) , published together with six sets of Objections , among them those of Thomas Hobbes ...
... Discourse on Method ( 1637 ) , prefacing three treatises on mathematics and physics , had been followed by his Meditations on First Philosophy ( 1641 ) , published together with six sets of Objections , among them those of Thomas Hobbes ...
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