Frances Power Cobbe

This Element introduces the philosophy of Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), a very well-known moral theorist, advocate of animal welfare and women's rights, and critic of Darwinism and atheism in the Victorian era.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Cobbe's Life, Writings, and Context; 2. Moral Theory; 3. Rights of Women; 4. The Claims of Animals; 5. Philosophy of Mind; 6. Criticisms of Evolutionary Ethics; 7. Heteropathy and Sympathy; 8. Against Atheism; 9. Duties of Women; 10. Anti-Vivisection and Zoophily; 11. How Cobbe Became Forgotten; Conclusion.

About the author

Alison Stone has published six full-length collections and three chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, New York Quarterly, Poetry, Ploughshares, Barrow Street, Poet Lore, and many other journals and anthologies. She has been awarded Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize and New York Quarterly's Madeline Sadin Award. She is also a painter and the creator of The Stone Tarot. A licensed psychotherapist, she has private practices in NYC and Nyack.

Summary

This Element introduces the philosophy of Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), a very well-known moral theorist, advocate of animal welfare and women's rights, and critic of Darwinism and atheism in the Victorian era.

Product details

• Authors: Alison Stone, Alison (Lancaster University) Stone, Stone Alison
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781009160971
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0916097-1
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Feminism & feminist theory, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Feminism and feminist theory