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Reason, passion, imagination (2019)


Reuter, M. (2019). Reason, passion, imagination. In S. Bergès, E. Hunt Botting, & A. Coffee (Eds.), The Wollstonecraftian Mind (pp. 338-350). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315186788-27


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Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Reuter, Martina

Emojulkaisu: The Wollstonecraftian Mind

Emojulkaisun toimittajat: Bergès, Sandrine; Hunt Botting, Eileen; Coffee, Alan

ISBN: 978-1-138-70997-3

eISBN: 978-1-315-18678-8

Julkaisuvuosi: 2019

Artikkelin sivunumerot: 338-350

Kirjan kokonaissivumäärä: 512

Kustantaja: Routledge

Kustannuspaikka: Abingdon

Julkaisumaa: Britannia

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315186788-27

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Tiivistelmä

Mary Wollstonecraft establishes the role of reason right at the beginning of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and her statement includes the generic use of “man”, an emphasis on the need to control the passions and a hierarchical distinction between humans and other animals. All these are features that have created worries among twentieth- and twenty-first-century feminists (e.g. Lloyd 1984; Squires 1999; Grosz 2005). In order to appreciate Wollstonecraft’s feminism it is therefore important to understand the philosophical basis for her views on the relation between reason and passion as well as between humans and other animals.

In this chapter I discuss Wollstonecraft’s concept of reason and its relations to the passions and the imagination. My aim is to show how her feminist philosophy is connected to these three mental capacities and how it is dependent on them all. The chapter divides into three sections, focusing respectively on reason, passion and imagination. I will address the following questions: Why does Wollstonecraft think that feminist arguments need to be based on reason? How does her view on the relation between reason and passion differ from the dichotomous view often assumed by twenty-first-century philosophers? How does the imagination contribute to human cognition as well as to the creation of a feminist future?


YSO-asiasanat: feministinen filosofia; järki; argumentointi; tunteet; intohimo; mielikuvitus

Vapaat asiasanat: Wollstonecraft, Mary


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OKM-raportointi: Kyllä

Raportointivuosi: 2019

JUFO-taso: 3


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