XV—‘I Wish My Speech Were Like a Loadstone’: Cavendish on Love and Self-Love
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Borcherding, Julia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6058-9847
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jats:titleAbstract</jats:title> jats:pThis 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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5003 Philosophy, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 5002 History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
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0066-7374
1467-9264
1467-9264
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
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Leszek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship, awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science