Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay on education

Frazer, Elizabeth

doi:10.1080/03054985.2011.625165

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“…See, for example, Green (2012, 2014), and Green and Weekes (2013). Other significant recent contributions to Macaulay studies are as follows: Frazer (2011), Gardner (1998), Gunther-Canada (2006), Hill (1992, 1995), Hutton (2009) and Reuter (2007). In positioning Macaulay within eighteenth-century thought, I am in agreement with much of what Green writes.…”

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Catharine Macaulay’s Republican Conception of Social and Political Liberty

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2017

Political Studies

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Catharine Macaulay was one of the most significant republican writers of her generation. Although there has been a revival of interest in Macaulay among feminists and intellectual historians, neorepublican writers have yet to examine the theoretical content of her work in any depth. Since she anticipates and addresses a number of themes that still preoccupy republicans, this neglect represents a serious loss to the discipline. I examine Macaulay's conception of freedom, showing how she uses the often misunderstood notion of virtue to reconcile the individual and collective elements inherent in the republican model. In her own analysis of the deep-rooted social obstacles that stand in the way of women becoming free, Macaulay identifies a serious problem that confronts all republicans, namely how to secure freedom in the face of entrenched structural imbalances that systematically disadvantage certain classes of person. In the end, I conclude that Macaulay herself cannot overcome the issues she raises. This in no way diminishes the importance of her work since her diagnosis is as relevant today as in her own time.

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Catharine Macaulay’s Republican Conception of Social and Political Liberty

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2017

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“…Being the only female critics to challenge Burke’s assessment of the French Revolution and its underlying philosophical principles, Wollstonecraft and Macaulay make a curious pair: the 31-year-old Wollstonecraft, an unknown in the field of political discourse, and the seasoned Macaulay (commonly referred to as ‘our female patriot’), according to Elizabeth Frazer ‘a famous woman in the sense that chinaware figurines of her were manufactured by the Crown Derby porcelain factory’ (Frazer, 2011: 603). Whereas Macaulay’s essay was her very last one, for Wollstonecraft the Vindication was the precursor for her masterpiece on women’s rights which, according to Gunther-Canada, might have never been written without this primary intervention (1998: 145).…”

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Revolution and human rights thought in the political philosophy of Catharine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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2020

Journal of European Studies

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The Age of Reason is first and foremost an age of public reasoning. Equipped with a fresh and indeed unprecedented consciousness of feasibility and responsibility, educated citizens start to participate actively – and in many cases by taking personal risks – in discourses on political, religious and philosophical issues. In this article, I will highlight two core issues of the late eighteenth century – the dispute about the legitimacy of the French Revolution as well as its underlying philosophical conceptions and the rising human rights idea – and thereby revisit the interventions of three women who, though rediscovered in various fields of research, still have to gain their due recognition as pre-eminent political philosophers of their time.

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“…The former camp includes Taylor and Frazer . The latter is expressed, among others, by Stafford , 14.…”

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Putting on Virtue Without Putting Off Feminists

Dumler-Winckler¹

2015

Journal of Religious Ethics

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Mary Wollstonecraft's account of virtue discourse and formation, which deploys ancient and medieval ethical resources for modern purposes, challenges a prevalent narrative in Christian ethics today. Several prominent Christian virtue ethicists have left the false impression that serious reflection on the virtues depends on pre‐modern traditions and the eschewal of modern resources. Troubled by skeptical quandaries and the difficulty of adjudicating conflicting claims about virtue, they are concerned with securing a pre‐modern court of appeals. Many feminists worry that these appeals unduly constrain because they naturalize what is contingent and fix what should be open to debate. Wollstonecraft does not share the skeptical concerns and so has no need for metaethical appeals. Adapting Edmund Burke's moral philosophy, her use of virtue discourse deploys his metaphor of “the wardrobe of the moral imagination” to more religious, radical, and democratic ends. This way of proceeding signals the possibility of a rapprochement between feminists of various stripes and those interested in deploying the discourse of the virtues for contemporary Christian ethics.

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Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay on education

Cited by 14 publications

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Catharine Macaulay’s Republican Conception of Social and Political Liberty

Catharine Macaulay’s Republican Conception of Social and Political Liberty

Revolution and human rights thought in the political philosophy of Catharine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Putting on Virtue Without Putting Off Feminists

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