1st Edition

Rediscovering Women Philosophers Genre And The Boundaries Of Philosophy

By Catherine Ann W Gardner Copyright 2000
206 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

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