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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... Republican theorists and feminists alike , but as she is a High Church Tory , the peculiar constellation of her views sits uneasily with mod- ern commentators . Patricia Springborg's study addresses these apparent paradoxes and recovers ...
... Republican theorists and feminists alike , but as she is a High Church Tory , the peculiar constellation of her views sits uneasily with mod- ern commentators . Patricia Springborg's study addresses these apparent paradoxes and recovers ...
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... Republican theorists and feminists alike , but as she is a High Church Tory , the peculiar constellation of her views sits uneasily with modern commentators . Patricia Springborg's study addresses these apparent paradoxes and recovers ...
... Republican theorists and feminists alike , but as she is a High Church Tory , the peculiar constellation of her views sits uneasily with modern commentators . Patricia Springborg's study addresses these apparent paradoxes and recovers ...
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... republican , on the strength of her arguments for freedom from domination . This not only flies in the face of her avowed royalism and High Church Tory poli- tics , but it also reduces her to the author of the famous rhetorical question ...
... republican , on the strength of her arguments for freedom from domination . This not only flies in the face of her avowed royalism and High Church Tory poli- tics , but it also reduces her to the author of the famous rhetorical question ...
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... republican canon as a theorist of ' freedom from domination ' . Prior to her recent resurrection she was best known as the author of A Serious Proposal , which advocated a Platonist academy for women , a project that seems briefly to ...
... republican canon as a theorist of ' freedom from domination ' . Prior to her recent resurrection she was best known as the author of A Serious Proposal , which advocated a Platonist academy for women , a project that seems briefly to ...
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... republican , is much more difficult to accommodate , as we shall see . Not only was Astell not a republican but an out - and - out royalist , but she was not a rights theorist either . She explicitly argued against the Hobbesian and ...
... republican , is much more difficult to accommodate , as we shall see . Not only was Astell not a republican but an out - and - out royalist , but she was not a rights theorist either . She explicitly argued against the Hobbesian and ...
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