Margaret Cavendish: Essential Writings 1st Edition

Margaret Cavendish: Essential Writings 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190664060,0190664061,9780190664084, 0190664088

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0190664088
• ISBN-13: 9780190664084
• Author: David Cunning

The Seventeenth-Century philosopher, scientist, poet, playwright, and novelist Margaret Cavendish went to battle with the great thinkers of her time, and arguably got the better of them in many cases. She took a creative and systematic stand on the major questions of philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and political philosophy. She argued that human beings and all other members of the created universe are purely material creatures, and she held that there are many other ways in which creatures are alike as well: for example, human beings, non-human animals, spiders, cells, and all other beings exhibit skill, wisdom, and activity, and so the universe of matter is not the largely dead and unimpressive region that most of her contemporaries thought it to be.

Table contents:

Chapter 1. Worlds Olio
Chapter 2. Philosophical and Physical Opinions
Chapter 3. Philosophical Letters
Chapter 4. Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy
Chapter 5. Grounds of Natural Philosophy
Chapter 6. Poems and Fancies
Chapter 7. Fiction

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