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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... body problem . Astell's own vacillation between Malebranchean occasionalism and a more Lockean solution in the form of a ' sensible congruity ' between mind and body represent the horns of this dilemma . Chapter 2 , ' Astell , Drake ...
... body problem . Astell's own vacillation between Malebranchean occasionalism and a more Lockean solution in the form of a ' sensible congruity ' between mind and body represent the horns of this dilemma . Chapter 2 , ' Astell , Drake ...
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... body of her Reflections upon Marriage of 1700 , and later amplified in her 1706 preface to that work , can be shown to have predated Leslie's by three years . Moreover , they are arguments characteristic of Astell's entire philosophical ...
... body of her Reflections upon Marriage of 1700 , and later amplified in her 1706 preface to that work , can be shown to have predated Leslie's by three years . Moreover , they are arguments characteristic of Astell's entire philosophical ...
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Theorist of Freedom from Domination Patricia Springborg. person as body and soul in Christian doctrine . Indeed , as I shall try to show , seventeenth - century arguments for freedom from domination in general tended to be an exercise in ...
Theorist of Freedom from Domination Patricia Springborg. person as body and soul in Christian doctrine . Indeed , as I shall try to show , seventeenth - century arguments for freedom from domination in general tended to be an exercise in ...
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... body problems and the nature of freedom , which bring her at some moments within the Cartesian orbit as a Malebranchean , then closer to Locke in her search for a ' sensible congruity ' in the unity of personhood , and finally to a ...
... body problems and the nature of freedom , which bring her at some moments within the Cartesian orbit as a Malebranchean , then closer to Locke in her search for a ' sensible congruity ' in the unity of personhood , and finally to a ...
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... bodies with the autonomy and rights granted to men involves a kind of reverse anachronism . 14 It assumes that we moderns , or postmoderns , have a monopoly on the claim to feminism , and that to pass the test earlier thinkers would ...
... bodies with the autonomy and rights granted to men involves a kind of reverse anachronism . 14 It assumes that we moderns , or postmoderns , have a monopoly on the claim to feminism , and that to pass the test earlier thinkers would ...
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