Petticoat Power? Mary Astell's Appropriation of Heroic Virtue for Women
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Abstract Several recent studies devote themselves to Mary Astell's feminist theory of virtue—her ‘serious proposal the ladies’ help women obtain wisdom, equality, and happiness, despite prejudices seventeenth-century custom. But there has been little scholarship on conception heroic virtues , those exceptional character traits that raise their bearers above ordinary course nature. appropriation virtue poses a number philosophical difficulties for her ethics—heroic are characteristically masculine, exceptional, individualistic, ill-suited community-oriented feminism aimed at women. In this paper, we seek investigate—and then dispel—these key difficulties. Our intention is generate new understanding as unique sophisticated equalizes naturalizes
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Philosophical Association
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2053-4485', '2053-4477']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2022.6