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The Immorality of Emotional Response. Liberty and the Slavery Metaphor in Wollstonecraft’s Theory of Property

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Author

Editor

  • Åsa Carlson

Summary, in English

I am concerned with Mary Wollstonecraft’s political morality. In it she makes no moral room, I claim, for emotional responses or emotional reasons for action, and it is important that she doesn’t. I will start by pointing at reasons for why it is important. I will then go on to analyse the content of and relations between her main political concepts: the triad of liberty, equality and virtue, within a theory of rights. I will end by discussing her political morality in relation to a particular case, that of property. When it comes to emotional responses her thoughts on the proper diffusion of property and her critique of charity is a good case in point. In the end, the reasons I will give now for why there is no moral room for emotional response, will hopefully appear to have been illustrated by the analysis and the application that follow.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Publication/Series

Philosophical Aspects on Emotions

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Thales

Topic

  • Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Keywords

  • liberty
  • property
  • Mary Wollstonecraft
  • emotions
  • charity

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9789172350533