TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shapiro,Lisa
TI  - The Outward and Inward Beauty of Early Modern Women
PY  - 2013///.
							
N1  - 78
N2  - I explore some early modern philosophical thought about the relation of beauty and wisdom, a theme first expressed in Plato’s Symposium. The thinkers I consider most centrally are two women, Lucrezia Marinella and Mary Astell, though I also consider the writers Aphra Behn and Sarah Scott. While women in particular might have a special interest in appropriating the Platonic image of the ladder of desire, this ought not to be conceived as a ‘women’s issue’. Rather, I suggest, this strand of thought is connected with a central philosophical question of the early modern period, the nature of thought and consciousness
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-philosophique-2013-3-page-327?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -