The "Equal Eye" of Compassion: Reading Sympathy in Catharine Macaulay's History of England

Greentree, Shane

doi:10.1353/ecs.2019.0015

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“…Macaulay’s contributions to philosophical ethics in particular remain underestimated, 4 even though many of the ideas she put forward, such as the relevance of the faculty of empathy (see also Greentree, 2019), turned out to be very influential in the context of evolutionary ethics as well as ‘ethics of care’ approaches.…”

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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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Section: Three Lives – In and Out Of Timementioning

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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

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The "Equal Eye" of Compassion: Reading Sympathy in Catharine Macaulay's History of England

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

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

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