A Vindication Of Political Virtue

Author : Virginia Sapiro
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226734910

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A Vindication of Political Virtue by Virginia Sapiro Pdf

Nearly two hundred years ago, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote what is considered to be the first major work of feminist political theory: A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Much has been written about this work, and about Wollstonecraft as the intellectual pioneer of feminism, but the actual substance and coherence of her political thought have been virtually ignored. Virginia Sapiro here provides the first full-length treatment of Wollstonecraft's political theory. Drawing on all of Wollstonecraft's works and treating them thematically rather than sequentially, Sapiro shows that Wollstonecraft's ideas about women's rights, feminism, and gender are elements of a broad and fully developed philosophy, one with significant implications for contemporary democratic and liberal theory. The issues raised speak to many current debates in theory, including those surrounding interpretation of the history of feminism, the relationship between liberalism and republicanism in the development of political philosophy, and the debate over the canon. For political scientists, most of whom know little about Wollstonecraft's thought, Sapiro's book is an excellent, nuanced introduction which will cause a reconsideration of her work and her significance both for her time and for today's concerns. For feminist scholars, Sapiro's book offers a rounded and unconventional analysis of Wollstonecraft's thought. Written with considerable charm and verve, this book will be the starting point for understanding this important writer for years to come.

Author : Barnes & Noble,Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0760754942

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Barnes & Noble,Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and the call for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecrafts work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrageWalpole called her a hyena in petticoatsyet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.

Author : Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt,Paul Gibbard,Karen Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317078753

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Political Ideas of Enlightenment Women by Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt,Paul Gibbard,Karen Green Pdf

This edited collection showcases the contribution of women to the development of political ideas during the Enlightenment, and presents an alternative to the male-authored canon of philosophy and political thought. Over the course of the eighteenth century increasing numbers of women went into print, and they exploited both new and traditional forms to convey their political ideas: from plays, poems, and novels to essays, journalism, annotated translations, and household manuals, as well as dedicated political tracts. Recently, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to women’s literary writing and their role in salon society, but their participation in political debates is less well studied. This volume offers new perspectives on some better known authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Catharine Macaulay, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, as well as neglected figures from the British Isles and continental Europe. The collection advances discussion of how best to understand women’s political contributions during the period, the place of salon sociability in the political development of Europe, and the interaction between discourses on slavery and those on women’s rights. It will interest scholars and researchers working in women’s intellectual history and Enlightenment thought and serve as a useful adjunct to courses in political theory, women’s studies, the history of feminism, and European history.

Author : Matthew D. Wright
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700627554

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A Vindication of Politics by Matthew D. Wright Pdf

Is politics strictly a means to an end—something that serves only the interests of individuals and the various associations of civil society such as families and charities? Or is a society’s political common good an end in itself, an essential component of full human flourishing? Responding to recent influential arguments for the instrumentality of the political common good, Matthew D. Wright’s A Vindication of Politics addresses a lacuna in natural law political theory by foregrounding the significance of political culture. Rather than an activity defined by law and government, politics emerges in this account as a cultural enterprise that connects generations and ennobles our common life. The instrumentalist argument, in Wright’s view, does not give a plausible account of, among other things, the value of patriotism—of the way Americans revere the Founders, for instance, or love the Declaration of Independence, or idolize Abraham Lincoln. Such political affections cannot be explained by an instrumental common good. Loyalty to one’s country is not like a commitment to a telephone company. As nasty as politics can be, we hope for more from it than the quid pro quo of a business transaction. To arrive at an adequate theoretical account of why that is, Wright brings historical theory from Aristotle to Burke into conversation with contemporary theorists from John Finnis to Amy Gutmann. In A Vindication of Politics he develops a case for the intrinsic value of politics in a way that underwrites a healthy patriotism—and strongly suggests that the political common good is a critical part of what it means to be fully human. The book offers new insight into the nature of the political common good and human sociability as well as their importance for making sense of the fundamental questions of American constitutional identity, principles, and aspirations.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X000054382

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

The First Edition of this Norton Critical Edition was both an acclaimed classroom text and ahead of its time. This Second Edition offers the best in Wollstonecraft scholarship and criticism since 1976, providing the ideal means for studying the first feminist document written in English.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783849649746

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A Vindication of the Rights of Men by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

In 1790 came that "extraordinary outburst of passionate intelligence," Mary Wollstonecraft's reply to Edmund Burke's attack on the principles of the French Revolution entitled a "Vindication of the Rights of Men." In this pamphlet she held up to scorn Burke's defence of monarch and nobility, his merciless sentimentality. "It is one of the most dashing political polemics in the language," Mr. Taylor writes enthusiastically, "and has not had the attention it deserves. . . . For sheer virility and grip of her verbal instruments it is probably the finest of her works. Some of her sentences have the quality of a sword-edge, and they flash with the rapidity of a practised duellist. It was written at a white heat of indignation; yet it is altogether typical of the writer that, in the midst of the work, quite suddenly, she had one of her fits of callousness and morbid temper, and declared she would not go on. With great skill Johnson persuaded her to take it up again; and with equal suddenness her eagerness returned, and the book was finished and published before any one else could answer Burke."

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Women
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009604562

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534858180

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

In the present state of society, it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground. To clear my way, I must be allowed to ask some plain questions, and the answers will probably appear as unequivocal as the axioms on which reasoning is built; though, when entangled with various motives of action, they are formally contradicted, either by the words or conduct of men. In what does man's pre-eminence over the brute creation consist? The answer is as clear as that a half is less than the whole; in Reason. What acquirement exalts one being above another? Virtue; we spontaneously reply. For what purpose were the passions implanted? That man by struggling with them might attain a degree of knowledge denied to the brutes: whispers Experience. Consequently the perfection of our nature and capability of happiness, must be estimated by the degree of reason, virtue, and knowledge, that distinguish the individual, and direct the laws which bind society: and that from the exercise of reason, knowledge and virtue naturally flow, is equally undeniable, if mankind be viewed collectively. The rights and duties of man thus simplified, it seems almost impertinent to attempt to illustrate truths that appear so incontrovertible: yet such deeply rooted prejudices have clouded reason, and such spurious qualities have assumed the name of virtues, that it is necessary to pursue the course of reason as it has been perplexed and involved in error, by various adventitious circumstances, comparing the simple axiom with casual deviations. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. THE RIGHTS AND INVOLVED DUTIES OF MANKIND CONSIDERED CHAPTER 2. THE PREVAILING OPINION OF A SEXUAL CHARACTER DISCUSSED CHAPTER 3. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED CHAPTER 4. OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE OF DEGRADATION TO WHICH WOMAN IS REDUCED BY VARIOUS CAUSES CHAPTER 5. ANIMADVERSIONS ON SOME OF THE WRITERS WHO HAVE RENDERED WOMEN OBJECTS OF PITY, BORDERING ON CONTEMPT CHAPTER 6. THE EFFECT WHICH AN EARLY ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS HAS UPON THE CHARACTER CHAPTER 7. MODESTY. COMPREHENSIVELY CONSIDERED, AND NOT AS A SEXUAL VIRTUE CHAPTER 8. MORALITY UNDERMINED BY SEXUAL NOTIONS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF A GOOD REPUTATION CHAPTER 9. OF THE PERNICIOUS EFFECTS WHICH ARISE FROM THE UNNATURAL DISTINCTIONS ESTABLISHED IN SOCIETY CHAPTER 10. PARENTAL AFFECTION CHAPTER 11. DUTY TO PARENTS CHAPTER 12. ON NATIONAL EDUCATION CHAPTER 13. SOME INSTANCES OF THE FOLLY WHICH THE IGNORANCE OF WOMEN GENERATES; WITH CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS ON THE MORAL IMPROVEMENT THAT A REVOLUTION IN FEMALE MANNERS MAY NATURALLY BE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : UOM:39015049221453

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Author : Nicholas Xenos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135929268

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Cloaked in Virtue by Nicholas Xenos Pdf

It is now commonly acknowledged that numerous key players in and around the Bush administration’s planning of the Iraq invasion were connected through a common background in the political philosophy of Leo Strauss, a German-born University of Chicago professor who died in 1973. These Straussian "neocons" were held responsible for exploiting the September 11th attacks in order to further their own foreign policy agenda. Cloaked in Virtue is the first book to take a critical view of the political ideas of Leo Strauss himself by careful attention to his own writings before and after his emigration to the United States. The result is a critical examination of the political theory of Leo Strauss, lifting the veil of intentional obfuscation, and its influence on the neoconservative foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics and international relations.

Author : Stephen H. Browne
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0817306765

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Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue by Stephen H. Browne Pdf

Close readings of Burke's public discourse and political writings

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1330369750

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects Sir, - Having read with great pleasure a pamphlet which you have lately published, I dedicate this volume to you; to induce you to reconsider the subject, and maturely weigh what I have advanced respecting the rights of woman and national education: and I call with the firm tone of humanity; for my arguments, sir, are dictated by a dis-interested spirit - I plead for my sex - not for myself. Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue - and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. It is then an affection for the whole human race that makes my pen dart rapidly along to support what I believe to be the cause of virtue; and the same motive leads me earnestly to wish to see woman placed in a station in which she would advance, instead of retarding, the progress of those glorious principles that give a substance to morality. My opinion, indeed, respecting the rights and duties of woman, seems to flow so naturally from these simple principles, that I think it scarcely possible, but that some of the enlarge minds who formed your admirable constitution will coincide with me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : John Gregory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1774
Category : Christian education
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000104339

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A Father's Legacy to His Daughters by John Gregory Pdf

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Women
ISBN : UCAL:$B787888

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Author : Sandrine Berges
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136205279

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The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Sandrine Berges Pdf

Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the greatest philosophers and writers of the Eighteenth century. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Her most celebrated and widely-read work is A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. This Guidebook introduces: Wollstonecraft’s life and the background to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman The ideas and text of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Wollstonecraft’s enduring influence in philosophy and our contemporary intellectual life It is ideal for anyone coming to Wollstonecraft’s classic text for the first time and anyone interested in the origins of feminist thought.