Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on sexual equality : historical, methodological and philosophical issues
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Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on sexual equality : historical, methodological and philosophical issues
（Studies in the history of political thought / edited by Terence Ball, Jörn Leonhard, Wyger Velema, v. 1）
Brill, 2009
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Revised version of the author's Ph.D. thesis
Includes bibliographical references (p. [352]-362) and index
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Vincent Guillin uses the issue of sexual equality as a prism through which to examine important differences - epistemological, methodological and theoretical - between Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill. He succeeds in showing how their differing conceptions of science and human nature influence and affect their respective approaches to philosophy and to the analysis of female (in)equality in particular. Guillin shines a bright searchlight into long-neglected aspects of both men's thinking - for example, Mill's proposal to construct an 'ethology', or science of character-formation, and Comte's seemingly bizarre interest in phrenology - and the ways in which these shaped their views of women's intellectual and political capacities. Guillin's wide-ranging study examines both men's major and minor works, their correspondence with one another, and the reasons for the final acrimonious break between two of the nineteenth century's most original and important thinkers.
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1. Comte and Mill on Sexual Equality: Context and Problems
2. The Female Brain and the Subjection of Women: Biology, Phrenology and Sexual Equality
3. The Phrenological Controversy
4. The Explanation of Moral Phenomena: Comte and Mill on the Architectonics of the Moral Sciences
5. A Never Ending Subjection? Comte, Mill, and the Sociological Argument against Sexual Equality
6. The Ethological Fiasco: The Methodological Shortcomings of the Millian Science of the Formation of Character
7. How To Discover One's Nature: Mill's Argument for Emancipation in the Subjection of Women
Conclusion
Appendix: Comtean Studies, 1993-2000
Bibliography
Index
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