Mary Wollstonecraft

Martina Reuter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

75 Seiten

2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-01061-0 (ISBN)

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Mary Wollstonecraft is recognized as an important early feminist. This Element argues that she is also an ingenious moral philosopher, who showed that true virtue and the liberty of women are necessarily interdependent. The Element consists of eight sections. After an introduction, Section 2 discusses Wollstonecraft's concept of reason by examining its metaphysical foundation and its role as moral capacity. According to Wollstonecraft, reason interacts closely with the passions. Then, Sections 3 and 4 discuss the roles of the passions and the imagination. Reason, passion and imagination all come together in Wollstonecraft's discussions of love and friendship, which are the topic of Section 5. Wollstonecraft values education and knowledge, but discussions of her epistemology have been rare. Section 6 analyses some aspects of her views on knowledge. Finally, Section 7 discusses Wollstonecraft's notion of virtue, including its relations to liberty and duty. Section 8 makes some general conclusions.

1. Introduction; 2. Reason; 3. Passion; 4. Imagination; 5. Love and Friendship; 6. Knowledge; 7. Virtue; 8. Conclusions; List of Abbreviations; Appendix: A Brief Chronology of Mary Wollstonecraft's Life and Works.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	140 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-009-01061-1 / 1009010611
ISBN-13	978-1-009-01061-0 / 9781009010610
Zustand	Neuware