XV—‘I Wish My Speech Were Like a Loadstone’: Cavendish on Love and Self-Love
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2021-11-25Journal Title
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
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0066-7374
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
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en
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Borcherding, J. (2021). XV—‘I Wish My Speech Were Like a Loadstone’: Cavendish on Love and Self-Love. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoab012
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<jats:p>This paper examines the surprisingly central role of sympathetic love within Margaret Cavendish’s philosophy. I show that such love fulfils a range of metaphysical functions, and highlight an important shift in Cavendish’s account vis-à-vis earlier conceptions: sympathetic love is no longer given an emanative or mechanistic explanation, but is naturalized as an active emotion. I further investigate to what extent Cavendish’s account reveals a rift between the realm of nature and the realm of human sociability, and whether this rift really prompts an inward turn as some interpreters have suggested.</jats:p>
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Leszek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship, awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoab012
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