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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... debate over toleration and dissent from the 1690s , which inaugurated the modern secular state . Among the first systematic critics of John Locke's entire corpus , she is best known for the famous question that prefaces her Reflections ...
... debate over toleration and dissent from the 1690s , which inaugurated the modern secular state . Among the first systematic critics of John Locke's entire corpus , she is best known for the famous question that prefaces her Reflections ...
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... debate over toleration and dissent from the 1690s , which inaugu- rated the modern secular state . Among the first systematic critics of John Locke's entire corpus , she is best known for the famous ques- tion that prefaces her ...
... debate over toleration and dissent from the 1690s , which inaugu- rated the modern secular state . Among the first systematic critics of John Locke's entire corpus , she is best known for the famous ques- tion that prefaces her ...
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... Debate 147 151 155 158 6. Astell , Sherlock and Locke on Authority and Title to Rule 160 5 A Fair Way with the Dissenters and Their Patrons 1. Locke , Toleration and Dissent 2. Astell , the Dissenters and Short Ways 164 164 169 3 ...
... Debate 147 151 155 158 6. Astell , Sherlock and Locke on Authority and Title to Rule 160 5 A Fair Way with the Dissenters and Their Patrons 1. Locke , Toleration and Dissent 2. Astell , the Dissenters and Short Ways 164 164 169 3 ...
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... debates between Norris and Locke , and between Astell and Masham , over the Cartesian mind - body problem . Astell's own vacillation between Malebranchean occasionalism and a more Lockean solution in the form of a ' sensible congruity ...
... debates between Norris and Locke , and between Astell and Masham , over the Cartesian mind - body problem . Astell's own vacillation between Malebranchean occasionalism and a more Lockean solution in the form of a ' sensible congruity ...
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... debates with Daniel Defoe and James Owen . Moderation Truly Stated , the first of Astell's three political pamphlets of 1704 , possibly commissioned by her printer and written in the heat of the occasional conformity debate against the ...
... debates with Daniel Defoe and James Owen . Moderation Truly Stated , the first of Astell's three political pamphlets of 1704 , possibly commissioned by her printer and written in the heat of the occasional conformity debate against the ...
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