New Perspectives on Agency in Early Modern Philosophy |
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Authors: | Ruth Boeker |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, and UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life, Dublin, Irelandruth.boeker@ucd.iehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5995-8868 |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTThis introductory article outlines the themes and aims of this special issue, which offers new perspectives on early modern debates about agency in two ways: First, it recovers writings on agency and liberty that have been widely neglected or that have received insufficient attention, including writings by Anne Conway, Henry More, Ralph Cudworth, William King, Gabrielle Suchon, Elizabeth Berkeley Burnet, Mary Astell, and Anthony Ashley Cooper, the Third Earl of Shaftesbury. Second, it reveals the richness of early modern debates about agency and liberty. |
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Keywords: | Early modern philosophy agency liberty selfhood early modern women philosophers Cambridge Platonism |
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