Liberty and Virtue in Catherine Macaulay's Enlightenment Philosophy

Intellectual History Review 22 (3):411-426 (2012)
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Argues that like more conservative feminist writers, Gabrielle Suchon and Mary Astell, writing earlier in the Eighteenth Century, Macaulay's concept of liberty is closely tied to virtue and involves free self government according to reason. Unlike these earlier writers from this concept of liberty she deduces the rationality of democratic republican government. Thus the grounds on which she builds her republicanism involve a very different concept of rational self interest to that usually assumed to ground social contract theory. For virtue and the genuine self interest of rational beings are taken to coincide.

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