Common sense applied to religion
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書誌事項
Common sense applied to religion
（History of American thought, . The social,
Thoemmes Press, 2002
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Common sense applied to religion, or, The Bible and the people
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注記
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harper & Brothers, 1857
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Catharine Beecher (1800-78) did a great deal to change assumptions about the place of women in American society. Best known as the foremother of home economics or "domestic science", she sought to give homemaking the status of a career - one as worthy and honourable as any of the well-paid professions then held exclusively by men. Outside the home, so Beecher argued, women should have access to higher education to prepare them for the teaching profession (Beecher herself founded Hartford Female Seminary and other leading women's colleges.) As teachers, women could bring to the nation the same benefits as they brought to their families as mothers. But Beecher was also a traditionalist. She objected to women entering the workforce in fields that she considered masculine, and she stoutly opposed women's suffrage. Besides her more public life as educator and campaigner, Beecher was a very considerable philosopher and social theorist, and her writings are now the subject of increasing attention. This six-volume collection includes Beecher's main philosophical works.
Her "Elements of Mental and Moral Philosophy" (1831) is one of the earliest books on philosophy of mind in the American canon. In "Common Sense Applied to Religion" (1857) Beecher sets out an ethical system of self-sacrifice, using a methodology borrowed from the Scottish School. Also included in the set is her anonymous "Essay on Cause and Effect" where she argues that a proper definition of cause makes clear the differentiation of mind and matter. Among three volumes of writings on the role and rights of women is "True Remedy", in which Beecher denounces factory work as unsuitable for women, her "Anti-Suffrage Petition", and "Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator" (1872). In these works she argues, among much else, that "the evils it is hoped to cure by the ballot would continue" so long as women's labour in the home was denied the respect given to men's paid work in the outside world. Most of these books are missing even from the largest research libraries, and this collection of Thoemmes Press facsimiles should be welcomed by scholars of American philososphy, history of education and women's studies.
目次
- Volumes 1-3 Moral and Religious Works: Volume 1 (484pp) - Introduction by Therese B. Dykeman with Dorothy G. Rogers Chronology "Elements of Mental and Moral Philosophy, founded upon Experience, Reason and the Bible" (1831)
- Volume 2 (392pp) - "Letters on the Difficulties of Religion" (1836) "An Essay on Cause and Effect in connection with the Difference of Fatalism and Free Will", "Biblical Repository" 2.4 (October 1839) - 381-408, "To those Commencing a Religious Life" (1840)
- Volume 3 (360pp) "Common Sense Applied to Religion, or, The Bible and the People" (1857). Volumes 4-6 The Role and Rights of Women: Volume 4 (232pp) - "The Duty of American Women to their Country" (1845), "The Evils suffered by American Women and American Children: the Causes and the Remedy" (1846, 1847), "Letter to Benevolent Ladies" (1849)
- Volume 5 (270pp) - "True Remedy for the Wrongs of Woman, with a History of an Enterprise having that for its Object" (1851), "Anti-Suffrage Petition," in "Godey's Lady's Book", ed. Sarah J. Hale (May 1871), 82 - 476-7
- Volume 6 (226pp) - "Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator" (1872).
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