Margaret Cavendish

Name: Margaret Cavendish
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521776752
Price: 7050 KES
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ISBN: 9780521776752

by Margaret Cavendish

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

ISBN-10 0521776759

ISBN-13 9780521776752

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 7th, 2001

Print length 338 Pages

Weight 508 grams

Dimensions 15.20 x 22.80 x 2.60 cms

Product Classification: Philosophy Philosophy

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Margaret Cavendish's 1668 Observations upon Experimental Philosophy holds a unique position in early modern philosophy, drawing on the doctrines of ancient Stoicism to attack the tenets of seventeenth-century mechanical philosophy. Her treatise is a document of major importance in the history of women's contributions to philosophy and science.

Margaret Cavendish's 1668 edition of Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, presented here in a 2001 edition, holds a unique position in early modern philosophy. Cavendish rejects the Aristotelianism which was taught in the universities in the seventeenth century, and the picture of nature as a grand machine which was propounded by Hobbes, Descartes and members of the Royal Society of London, such as Boyle. She also rejects the views of nature which make reference to immaterial spirits. Instead she develops an original system of organicist materialism, and draws on the doctrines of ancient Stoicism to attack the tenets of seventeenth-century mechanical philosophy. Her treatise is a document of major importance in the history of women's contributions to philosophy and science.

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