Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on sexual equality : : historical, methodological and philosophical issues / / by Vincent Guillin.
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...
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| Superior document: | Studies in the history of political thought, v. 1 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the history of political thought ;
v. 1. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Comte and Mill on sexual equality : context and problems
- The female brain and the subjection of women : biology, phrenology and sexual equality
- The phrenological controversy
- The explanation of moral phenomena : Comte and Mill on the architectonics of the moral sciences
- A never ending subjection? : Comte, Mill, and the sociological argument against sexual equality
- The ethological fiasco : the methodological shortcomings of the Millian science of the formation of character
- How to discover one's nature : Mill's argument for emancipation in the Subjection of women
- Conclusion.