1st Edition
Rediscovering Women Philosophers Genre And The Boundaries Of Philosophy
By Catherine Ann W Gardner
Copyright 2000
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book offers interpretations of the work of specific moral philosophers that can be used to present a challenge to what the author have been calling the view of moral philosophy. It focuses on interpreting women moral philosophers and discusses whether women have "prudence" or "natural sense".
Introduction -- Catharine Macaulay’s Letters on Education: What Constitutes a Philosophical System -- Allegory and Moral Philosophy in Christine de Pisan’s The Book of the City of Ladies -- Mary Wollstonecraft and the Separation of Poetry and Politics -- George Eliot and How to Read Novels as Philosophy -- Knowing and Speaking of Divine Love: Mechthild of Magdeburg -- Conclusion
Biography
Catherine Villanueva Gardner