Mary Wollstonecraft / Martina Reuter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reuter, Martina, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements on women in the history of philosophy 2634-4645

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797--Philosophy.

Wollstonecraft, Mary.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (71 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Mary Wollstonecraft

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Reason

2.1 Reason and Providence

2.2 Reason and Liberty

2.3 The Exercises of Reason

3 Passion

3.1 Passions as Necessary Auxiliaries

3.1.1 Passions and Providence

3.1.2 Moral Psychology

3.2 Strong Passions, Sublime Emotions and Generous Feeling

4 Imagination

4.1 The Scope of the Imagination

4.2 Imagination as Motive Force

5 Love and Friendship

5.1 The Eighteenth-Century Context

5.2 Love and Esteem

5.3 Wollstonecraft's Conception of Love

6 Knowledge

6.1 Criticism of Gendered Knowledge

6.2 Innate Capacities and Empiricist Features

7 Virtue

7.1 Moral Realism

7.2 Liberty and Equality

7.3 The Unity of Virtue

7.4 Mind and Body

7.5 Aristotelian or Platonist Virtue?

7.6 Human Duties

8 Conclusions

List of Abbreviations

Appendix: A Brief Chronology of Mary Wollstonecraft's Life and Works

References

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Sep 2022).

ISBN:

1-009-02134-6

1-009-02154-0

1-009-02392-6

OCLC:

1346571483