Cavendish’s Philosophy of the Passions

Broad, Jacqueline; Sipowicz, Maks

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“…Indeed, Brandie Siegfried argues that Wordsworth's poem, “Hart‐leap Well” was influenced by Cavendish's poetry (Siegfried, 2018, p. 49). Notably, Jacqueline Broad and Maks Sipowitz point out that David Hume read Cavendish as he refers to her biography of her husband in volume V in his History of England , 3 contending that “it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that Hume knew of her philosophy” (Broad & Sipowitz, 2022, pp. 96–97).…”

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Berkeley's Gland Tour into Speculative Fiction Part 2: Margaret Cavendish and Berkeley's Attitudes Towards Women

Moriarty

Walters

2023

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In Part 1, we explored how Berkeley drew from Homeric literature and used literary techniques such as satire to challenge his "freethinking" philosophical opponents in "The Pineal Gland" story published in The Guardian in 1713. Echoing the grand tours Berkeley undertook in subsequent years, Part 1 and 2 both present a "gland tour" of some motivations, influences and legacies of Berkeley's text. In particular, Part 2, explores a line of literary influence beginning with Margaret Cavendish and extending through Gabriel Daniel, Berkeley and Alexander Pope. In doing so, we present anticipations of features of Berkeley's story in the writings of Margaret Cavendish amid a discussion of Berkeley's complex attitudes towards women. The paper also argues that Berkeley's story represents an underappreciated yet significant milestone in the history of speculative fiction.

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“…3 3 See Hume (1762, p. 369, and cited from Broad & Sipowitz, 2022, n34). Cavendish's biography is titled The Life of the Thrice Noble, High and Puissant Prince William Cavendishe (1667). …”

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Berkeley's Gland Tour into Speculative Fiction Part 2: Margaret Cavendish and Berkeley's Attitudes Towards Women

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Walters

2023

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“…Royalist women also found recourse to Stoicism helpful in the aftermath of the civil war. Writing in the 1650s and 1660s, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, embraced Stoic principles across her oeuvre and within her specifically philosophical writings (see Broad & Sipowicz, 2022; Barnes, 2018; Boyle, 2006; Cunning, 2016; Bennett, 2011; O’Neill, 2001, 2013). Cavendish contrasts the Stoic to a person who is a slave to their passions, which are (in the Stoic view) excessive impulses—such as appetite and pleasure, fear and distress—that are contrary to nature and incompatible with reason 3 .…”

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Women and Stoic ethics in early modern England

Broad

Barnes

2023

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This paper provides an overview of women's engagement with Stoic ethics in early modern England (c. 1600–1700). It builds on recent literature in the field by demonstrating that there is a positive gender‐inclusive narrative to be told about Stoic philosophy in this time—one that incorporates women's specific concerns and responds to women's lived experiences. To support this claim, we take an interdisciplinary approach and examine several different genres of women's writing in the period, including letters, poems, plays, educational texts, and moral essays. In these writings, we argue, a distinctive conception of Stoic therapy emerges. Women embrace well‐known aspects of the Stoic philosophy—such as living in agreement with nature, the importance of self‐government, and the ideal of freedom from the passions—but they also allow room for the cultivation of eupatheiai or life‐affirmative feelings, such as feelings of respect, affection, and good will toward other people.

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“…As early as [82], the ubiquity of sense and reason is suggested to imply that "Vegetables & Minerals may know/As Man, though like to Trees and stones they grow" ("Of Sense and Reason exercised in their different shapes", p. 56). [42], expressing the standard view (as also seen in, e.g., [83], p. 499; [84], p. 459; [85], p. 87, note 15 and p. 90, note 23; [10], Section 2; [86], Section 1; [87], p. 286; [5], esp. Section 2c; [88], pp.…”

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A Vitalist Shoal in the Mechanist Tide: Art, Nature, and 17th-Century Science

Shaheen

2022

Philosophies

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This paper reconstructs Margaret Cavendish’s theory of the metaphysics of artifacts. It situates her anti-mechanist account of artifactual production and the art-nature distinction against a background of Aristotelian, Scholastic, and mechanist theories. Within this broad context, it considers what Cavendish thinks artisans can actually do, grounding her terminological stipulation that there is no genuine generation in nature in a commitment to natural and artistic production as the mere rearrangement of bodies. Bodies themselves are identified, in a conceptually Ockhamist manner, with their figures, so that the resulting theory of mere rearrangement is Scholastically respectable. The paper also offers literal interpretations, focused narrowly on the philosophical content of her theories of art and artifacts, of her claims that art concerns only “nature’s sporting or playing actions”, that its products are “deformed and defective”, and that they are “at best …mixt or hermaphroditical."

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Cavendish’s Philosophy of the Passions

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Berkeley's Gland Tour into Speculative Fiction Part 2: Margaret Cavendish and Berkeley's Attitudes Towards Women

Berkeley's Gland Tour into Speculative Fiction Part 2: Margaret Cavendish and Berkeley's Attitudes Towards Women

Women and Stoic ethics in early modern England

A Vitalist Shoal in the Mechanist Tide: Art, Nature, and 17th-Century Science

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