Author: Sally Mitchell
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813922713
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
An accessible narrative biography, Frances Power Cobbe traces the details of Cobbe's life and work, analyzes her writing, and sets both in the context of the social and intellectual debates of her time.
Frances Power Cobbe
Author: Sally Mitchell
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813922713
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
An accessible narrative biography, Frances Power Cobbe traces the details of Cobbe's life and work, analyzes her writing, and sets both in the context of the social and intellectual debates of her time.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813922713
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
An accessible narrative biography, Frances Power Cobbe traces the details of Cobbe's life and work, analyzes her writing, and sets both in the context of the social and intellectual debates of her time.
The Duties of Women
Author: Frances Power Cobbe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Frances Power Cobbe
Author: Alison Stone
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197628222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This volume brings together essential writings by the unjustly neglected nineteenth-century philosopher Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904). A prominent ethicist, feminist, champion of animal welfare, and critic of Darwinism and atheism, Cobbe was well known and highly regarded in the Victorian era. This collection of her work introduces contemporary readers to Cobbe and shows how her thought developed over time, beginning in 1855 with her Essay on Intuitive Morals, in which she set out her duty-based moral theory, arguing that morality and religion are indissolubly connected. This work provided the framework within which she addressed many theoretical and practical issues in her prolific publishing career. In the 1860s and early 1870s, she gave an account of human duties to animals; articulated a duty-based form of feminism; defended a unique type of dualism in the philosophy of mind; and argued against evolutionary ethics. Cobbe put her philosophical views into practice, campaigning for women's rights and for first the regulation and later the abolition of vivisection. In turn her political experiences led her to revise her ethical theory. From the 1870s onwards she increasingly emphasized the moral role of the emotions, especially sympathy, and she theorized a gradual historical progression in sympathy. Moving into the 1880s, Cobbe combatted secularism, agnosticism, and atheism, arguing that religion is necessary not only for morality but also for meaningful life and culture. Shedding light on Cobbe's philosophical perspective and its applications, this volume demonstrates the range, systematicity and philosophical character of her work and makes her core ethical theory and its central applications and developments available for teaching and scholarship.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197628222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This volume brings together essential writings by the unjustly neglected nineteenth-century philosopher Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904). A prominent ethicist, feminist, champion of animal welfare, and critic of Darwinism and atheism, Cobbe was well known and highly regarded in the Victorian era. This collection of her work introduces contemporary readers to Cobbe and shows how her thought developed over time, beginning in 1855 with her Essay on Intuitive Morals, in which she set out her duty-based moral theory, arguing that morality and religion are indissolubly connected. This work provided the framework within which she addressed many theoretical and practical issues in her prolific publishing career. In the 1860s and early 1870s, she gave an account of human duties to animals; articulated a duty-based form of feminism; defended a unique type of dualism in the philosophy of mind; and argued against evolutionary ethics. Cobbe put her philosophical views into practice, campaigning for women's rights and for first the regulation and later the abolition of vivisection. In turn her political experiences led her to revise her ethical theory. From the 1870s onwards she increasingly emphasized the moral role of the emotions, especially sympathy, and she theorized a gradual historical progression in sympathy. Moving into the 1880s, Cobbe combatted secularism, agnosticism, and atheism, arguing that religion is necessary not only for morality but also for meaningful life and culture. Shedding light on Cobbe's philosophical perspective and its applications, this volume demonstrates the range, systematicity and philosophical character of her work and makes her core ethical theory and its central applications and developments available for teaching and scholarship.
The Peak in Darien
Author: Frances Power Cobbe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Life of Frances Power Cobbe
Author: Frances Power Cobbe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Age of Science; A Newspaper of the Twentieth Century
Author: Frances Power Cobbe
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387087462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387087462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Power and Protest
Author: Lori Williamson
Publisher: Rivers Oram Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This is the first full-length biography of Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), the Anglo-Irish reformer and pioneer of many causes, best remembered for her antivivisection and animal liberation work. Lori Williamson has pieced together her remarkable life from a variety of sources, and reveals one of Victorian England's most famous and vocal women in all her complexity.
Publisher: Rivers Oram Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This is the first full-length biography of Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), the Anglo-Irish reformer and pioneer of many causes, best remembered for her antivivisection and animal liberation work. Lori Williamson has pieced together her remarkable life from a variety of sources, and reveals one of Victorian England's most famous and vocal women in all her complexity.
The Victorian Vivisection Debate
Author: Theodore G. Obenchain
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786471195
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Is it justifiable for scientists to subject live animals to open operations--forcing them to suffer for the benefit of humans? This book expounds upon a debate among such experimental scientists as Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch in Victorian England--at a time in which animal cruelty (bear-baiting, e.g.) was ubiquitous. Journalist and reformer Frances Power Cobbe became so incensed that she devoted her political and legislative talents over a thirty year period to prohibiting vivisection. Struggling within severe medical limitations was London surgeon Lister, hardly able to operate for fear his patients would succumb to sepsis. After reading of Pasteur's new theory about germs, Lister helped revolutionize hospital care. These two scientists and Koch then expanded the scientific base by animal experiments. As their methods improved, they transformed medicine into a beneficent institution within British culture. No single adversarial movement could have held back the tide of modernism. The author brings the debate up to the 21st century by analyzing modern-day animal rights theories, and offers a credo for readers who remain undecided.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786471195
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Is it justifiable for scientists to subject live animals to open operations--forcing them to suffer for the benefit of humans? This book expounds upon a debate among such experimental scientists as Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch in Victorian England--at a time in which animal cruelty (bear-baiting, e.g.) was ubiquitous. Journalist and reformer Frances Power Cobbe became so incensed that she devoted her political and legislative talents over a thirty year period to prohibiting vivisection. Struggling within severe medical limitations was London surgeon Lister, hardly able to operate for fear his patients would succumb to sepsis. After reading of Pasteur's new theory about germs, Lister helped revolutionize hospital care. These two scientists and Koch then expanded the scientific base by animal experiments. As their methods improved, they transformed medicine into a beneficent institution within British culture. No single adversarial movement could have held back the tide of modernism. The author brings the debate up to the 21st century by analyzing modern-day animal rights theories, and offers a credo for readers who remain undecided.
Golden Cables of Sympathy
Author: Margaret H. McFadden
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184568
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
An intricate network of contacts developed among women in Europe and North America over the course of the nineteenth century. These women created virtual communities through communication, support, and a shared ideology. Forged across boundaries of nationality, language, ethnic origin, and even class, these connections laid the foundation for the 1888 International Council of Women and formed the beginnings of an international women's movement. This matrix extended throughout England and the Continent and included Scandinavia and Finland. In a remarkable display of investigative research, Margaret McFadden describes the burgeoning avenues of communication in the nineteenth century that led to an explosion in the number of international contacts among women. This network blossomed because of increased travel opportunities; advances in women's literacy and education; increased activity in the temperance, abolitionist, and peace reform movements; and the emergence of female evangelicals, political revolutionaries, and expatriates. Particular attention is paid to five women whose decades of work helped give birth to the women's movement by century's end. These ""mothers of the matrix"" include Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton of the United States, Anna Doyle Wheeler of Ireland, Fredrika Bremer of Sweden, and Frances Power Cobbe of England. Despite their philosophic differences, these leaders recognized the value of friendship and advocacy among women and shared an affinity for bringing together people from different cultural settings. McFadden demonstrates without question that the traditions of transatlantic female communication are far older than most historians realize and that the women's movement was inherently international. No other scholar has painted so complete a picture of the golden cables that linked the women who saw the Atlantic and the borders within Europe as bridges rather than barriers to improving their status.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184568
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
An intricate network of contacts developed among women in Europe and North America over the course of the nineteenth century. These women created virtual communities through communication, support, and a shared ideology. Forged across boundaries of nationality, language, ethnic origin, and even class, these connections laid the foundation for the 1888 International Council of Women and formed the beginnings of an international women's movement. This matrix extended throughout England and the Continent and included Scandinavia and Finland. In a remarkable display of investigative research, Margaret McFadden describes the burgeoning avenues of communication in the nineteenth century that led to an explosion in the number of international contacts among women. This network blossomed because of increased travel opportunities; advances in women's literacy and education; increased activity in the temperance, abolitionist, and peace reform movements; and the emergence of female evangelicals, political revolutionaries, and expatriates. Particular attention is paid to five women whose decades of work helped give birth to the women's movement by century's end. These ""mothers of the matrix"" include Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton of the United States, Anna Doyle Wheeler of Ireland, Fredrika Bremer of Sweden, and Frances Power Cobbe of England. Despite their philosophic differences, these leaders recognized the value of friendship and advocacy among women and shared an affinity for bringing together people from different cultural settings. McFadden demonstrates without question that the traditions of transatlantic female communication are far older than most historians realize and that the women's movement was inherently international. No other scholar has painted so complete a picture of the golden cables that linked the women who saw the Atlantic and the borders within Europe as bridges rather than barriers to improving their status.
The Woman Question in Europe
Author: Theodore Stanton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description