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Frances Power Cobbe (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R606
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Frances Power Cobbe (Paperback, New edition): Alison Stone

Frances Power Cobbe (Paperback, New edition)

Alison Stone

Series: Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy

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This Element introduces the philosophy of Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), a very well-known moral theorist, advocate of animal welfare and women's rights, and critic of Darwinism and atheism in the Victorian era. After locating Cobbe's achievements within nineteenth-century British culture, this Element examines her duty-based moral theory of the 1850s and then her 1860s accounts of duties to animals, women's rights, and the mind and unconscious thought. From the 1870s, in critical response to Darwin's evolutionary ethics, Cobbe put greater moral weight on the emotions, especially sympathy. She now criticised atheism for undermining morality, emphasised women's duties to develop virtues of character, and recommended treating animals with sympathy and compassion. The Element links Cobbe's philosophical arguments to her campaigns for women's rights and against vivisection, brings in critical responses from her contemporaries, explains how she became omitted from the history of philosophy, and shows the lasting importance of her work.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy
Release date: July 2022
Authors: Alison Stone
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 4mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 75
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-00-916097-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
LSN: 1-00-916097-4
Barcode: 9781009160971

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