Early modern women philosophers and politics: Accommodating sphere restrictions
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2024-07-12
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In his Politics, Aristotle decreed that human beings neededto take part in politics to flourish, but that women, despitebeing human, needed to stay at home and away from pol-itics. This paper offers an overview of how early modernwomen philosophers worked to makes their lives morepolitical despite being constricted to the domestic sphere.Lucrezia Marinella argued that the home was like a smallcity, requiring quasi political skill to run, Cavendishbelieved that politics should cover the home and its in-habitants, not just the so‐called ‘public domain’. MaryAstell, less optimistic, thought that women could compen-sate for the urge to be political by retreating into a well‐educated mind.
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Philosophy Compass
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Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
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