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This book advances the rediscovery of forgotten women philosophers
in the nineteenth century who have been unjustly left out of the
philosophical canon and omitted from narratives about the history
of philosophy. Women often did philosophy in a public setting in
this period, engaging with practical issues of social concern and
using philosophy to make the world a better place. This book
highlights some of women’s interventions against slavery, for
women’s rights, and on morality, moral agency, and the conditions
of a flourishing life. The chapters are on: Mary Shepherd’s idea
of life; the collaborative authorships and feminist perspectives of
Anna Doyle Wheeler and Harriet Taylor Mill; the roles of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott in the American women’s rights
movement; the influence of classical German philosophy on Lydia
Maria Child’s abolitionism; George Eliot’s understanding of
agency; the views of agency and resistance developed by Harriet
Tubman and Elizabeth from within the abolitionist tradition; Annie
Besant’s search for a metaphysical basis for ethics, which she
ultimately found in Hinduism; E. E. Constance Jones on the dualism
of practical reason; Marietta Kies on altruism and positive rights;
and Anna Julia Cooper’s black feminist conception of the right to
growth. The book unearths an important and neglected chapter in the
history of women philosophers, showing the variety and vitality of
nineteenth-century women’s intellectual lives. Nineteenth-Century
Women Philosophers in Britain and America will be of great use to
students and researchers interested in Philosophy, Women’s
Studies, and the politics of gender at the heart of British and
American societies. This book was originally published as a special
issue of British Journal for the History of Philosophy.
Charlotte Alderwick presents Schelling's ontology as fundamentally
power-based and demonstrates that this ontology enables his unique
conception of human freedom outlined in the Freedom essay, thereby
providing a novel interpretation of his metaphysics and conception
of freedom.This distinctive reading demonstrates that Schelling's
power-based ontology can usefully problematise and supplement
contemporary work on power-based ontologies. Firstly, where current
work focuses on powers in relation to specific areas of
metaphysics, Schelling provides a holistic picture, encompassing
these areas into a single ontological story. Secondly, engagement
with Schelling's work points to problems (though also to possible
solutions) that will arise for any power-based metaphysics, but are
currently unexamined in the literature.
Charlotte Alderwick presents Schelling's ontology as fundamentally
power-based. She demonstrates that this ontology enables his unique
conception of human freedom outlined in the 'Freedom' essay. This
distinctive reading demonstrates that Schelling's power-based
ontology can usefully problematise and supplement contemporary work
on power-based ontologies. First, where current work focuses on
powers in relation to specific areas of metaphysics, Schelling
provides a holistic picture, encompassing these areas into a single
ontological story. Secondly, engagement with Schelling's work
points to problems (and to possible solutions) that will arise for
any power-based metaphysics, but have not been examined in the
literature.
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