ISBN:
0226779203
,
9780226779232
,
0226779211
,
9780226779201
,
9780226779218
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxvii, 383 p)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Other voice in early modern Europe
Uniform Title:
Traité de la morale et de la politique. 〈engl.〉 Selections
Parallel Title:
Print version A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex : Selected Philosophical and Moral Writings
DDC:
305.420944/09033
Keywords:
Celibacy Early works to 1800
;
Women Early works to 1800
;
Political ethics Early works to 1800
Abstract:
During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632–1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women’s freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon’s writing from two works—Treatise on Ethics and Politics (1693) and On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen; or, Life without Commitments (1700)—and demonstrates her to be an original philosophical and moral thinker and writer. Suchon argues that both women and men have inherently similar intellectual, corporeal, and spiritual c
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; Volume Editors' Introduction; Volume Editors' Bibliography; I. Treatise on Ethics and Politics, Divided into Three Parts: Freedom, Knowledge, and Authority; II. On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen, or Life without Commitments; Appendix: Complete Tables of Contents of the Entire Treatise on Ethics and On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen; Glossary; Series Editors' Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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