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Frances Power Cobbe (Paperback, New edition)
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Frances Power Cobbe (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy
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Loot Price R544
Discovery Miles 5 440
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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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