From Serena to Hypatia: John Toland's Women

Autor:	Ian Leask
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	060104 history media_common.quotation_subject Philosophy 060302 philosophy General Engineering Enlightenment 0601 history and archaeology 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Superstition Classics media_common
Zdroj:	Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. 88:195-214
ISSN:	1755-3555 1358-2461
DOI:	10.1017/s1358246120000193
Popis:	This paper focusses on John Toland's influentialHypatia(1720), an account of the neo-Platonist philosopher and mathematician murdered in ancient Alexandria; it also considers segments of hisLetters to Serena(1704), and suggests various conjunctions between the two texts which confirm Toland's genuine and sustained feminist commitment. As I try to establish, Toland's concern is as much about contemporaneous events as it is about ‘disinterested’ history: by promoting Hypatia as the representative of philosophy in its perennial struggle with superstition and priestcraft, Toland is able to underscore the wider case for an inclusive and capacious conception of ‘enlightenment’.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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