Libertines Real and Fictional in Rochester, Shadwell, Wycherley, and Boswell examines the Restoration and eighteenth-century libertine figure as it appears in John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester's Satyr against Mankind, "The Maim'd Debauchee," and "Upon His Drinking a Bowl," Thomas Shadwell's The Libertine, William Wycherley's The Country Wife, and James Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763. I argue that the limitations and self-contradictions of standard definitions of libertinism and the ways in which libertine protagonists and libertinism in general function as critiques of libertinism. Moreover, libertine protagonists and poetic personae reinterpret libertinism to accommodate their personal agendas and in doing so, satirize the idea of libertinism itself and identify the problematization of "libertinism" as a category of gender and social identity. That is, these libertines misinterpret-often deliberately-Hobbes to justify their opposition and refusal to obey social institutions-e.g., eventually marrying and engaging in a monogamous relationship with one's wife-as well as their endorsement of obedience to nature or sense, which can include embracing a libertine lifestyle in which one engages in sexual encounters with multiple partners, refuses marriage, and questions the existence of God or at least distrusts any sort of organized religion. Since any attempts to define the word "libertinism"-or at least any attempts to provide a standard definition of the word-are tenuous at best, it is equally tenuous to suggest that any libertines conform to conventional or standard libertinism. In fact, the literary and "real life" libertines in this study not only fail to conform to such definitions of libertinism, but also reinterpret libertinism. While all these libertines do possess similar characteristics-namely affluence, insatiable sexual appetites, and a rebellion against institutional authorities (the Church, reason, government, family, and marriage)-they often misinterpret libertinism, reason, and Hobbesian philosophy. Furthermore, they all choose different, unique ways to oppose patriarchal, social authorities. These aberrant ways of rebelling against social institutions and their redefinitions of libertinism, I argue, make them self-satirists and self-conscious critics of libertinism as a concept.

Orientador: Marcos Lutz Muller / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T02:41:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lima_ErickCalheirosde_D.pdf: 2308487 bytes, checksum: 6dfb3fccea5c3fb1cb1bf08e6d614a3b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Este trabalho pretende desenvolver uma tese de leitura acerca das motivações e da consolidação da filosofia social de Hegel, qual seja: a importância da assimilação da teoria fichteana da intersubjetividade para a constituição do modelo hegeliano do desenvolvimento da eticidade. Na primeira parte, pretende-se mostrar que a teoria fichteana da intersubjetividade, desenvolvida no contexto da dedução da relação de direito, possui um potencial ético que parece cristalizar-se numa concepção não limitativa, não excludente e positiva da relação intersubjetiva. Na segunda parte, após investigar a contraposição, nos escritos de Hegel em Frankfurt, entre a intersubjetividade limitativa e potencialmente desagregadora, própria às relações contratuais do direito privado, e a harmonia intersubjetiva do amor, pretende-se mostrar que a derrocada da expectativa de Hegel com respeito ao ideal de integração social pela via de uma Volksreligion conduz a contraposição entre a intersubjetividade ¿solidária¿ e a ¿restritiva¿ ao projeto de uma ¿subjugação¿ da esfera econômica juridicamente regulada sob o âmbito político-público da eticidade absoluta. Em seguida, perseguindo a tese de que o problema do Einssein entre universal e singular pressupõe uma solução intersubjetivista, procura-se explorar as peculiaridades da ¿gênese intersubjetiva¿ do espírito do povo no System der Sittlichkeit e no Jenaer Systementwurf 1803/04, com especial ênfase na progressiva imbricação entre teoria da consciência, reconhecimento e desenvolvimento conceitual da eticidade, a qual interpretamos como uma articulação sócio-filosófica entre a intersubjetividade formadora e a intersubjetividade limitativa. Na terceira parte, pretende-se clarificar, a partir de uma análise comparativa do reconhecimento em suas versões ¿fenomenológicas¿, a conexão do mesmo com a efetivação da liberdade individual na eticidade. A intenção é mostrar que a ¿generalização¿ do movimento, pela sua inserção na ¿filosofia do espírito subjetivo¿, não conduz necessariamente ao seu desligamento dos estágios de efetivação intersubjetiva da liberdade, mas antes à sua pressuposição como forma normativa da relação social efetiva, de maneira que não apenas a relação intersubjetiva participativa e formadora da individualidade e a relação solidária, que constitui a gênese do estado ético, como também a relação de respeito recíproco à intangibilidade da pessoa, podem, enquanto ¿relações éticas¿, ser tematizadas no registro comum de um ¿ser-reconhecido¿. Finalmente, procura-se mostrar como Hegel insere, no Systementwurf 1805/06, a ¿luta por reconhecimento¿ em uma argumentação que articula a forma participativa de intersubjetividade com a gênese da solidariedade ética que tem de estar vinculada à efetividade social de uma vontade universal, a qual é, entretanto, compreendida pela primeira vez por Hegel, em sua imediatidade, como direito. O resultado mais amplo do trabalho é a tese de que tal interpretação poderia ser ¿aplicada¿ em uma leitura das Grundlinien, o que, entretanto, será apenas aqui indicado / Abstract: This work intends to delineate some motives underlying the development of Hegel's social philosophy. According to the interpretation we attempt to formulate, Fichte's view of intersubjectivity plays a decisive role in Hegel's comprehension of the conceptual unfolding of ¿ethical life¿ (Sittlichkeit). The first part focuses on Fichte's theory of intersubjectivity, particularly on its version presented in the Foundations of Natural Law, where it is deduced as a condition for the ¿juridical relation¿(Rechtsverhältnis). The main task is to show that Fichte's conception of the intersubjective mediation of individual conscience, when considered apart from its endurable form as a relation of reciprocally limited spheres of action, seems to contain the ethical potential for a ¿non-limited¿, ¿non-exclusive¿ and positive actualization of individual freedom. In the second part, after elucidating, in Hegel's early writings, the opposition between the ¿juridical¿, potentially disintegrative conception of intersubjectivity and the harmony of love, we intend to indicate how the frustration of Hegel's expectations, regarding social integration through a Volksreligion, conduces to the project of ¿subordination¿ (Bezwingung) of juridically regulated economics under the political realm of the abolute ethical life. Thus, after demonstrating that the problem of the Einssein of universal and individual pressuposes an intersubjective solution, the aim is to delineate the intersubjective genesis of the ¿Spirit of a People¿ in the System of Ethical Life and in the Philosophy of Spirit 1803/04, always emphazising the progressive articulation of theory of conscience, recognition and the conceptual unfolding of ethical life. The third part aims to elucidate, through a comparative investigation of the ¿phenomenological¿ versions of Hegel's theory of recognition, its connection with the actualization of individual freedom in the institutional framework of ethical life. In this context, it is aimed to show that the ¿generalization¿ of the process of recognition, due to its insertion into the ¿philosophy of subjective spirit¿, in despite of its immediate disconnection from the stages of intersubjective actualization of freedom, points toward the possibility of its pressuposition as the normative form of the actual social relation. According to this view, this ¿generalization¿ allows that not only the formative intersubjective ralation and the solidary connection among the individuals, that engenders the ¿ethical state¿, but also the interpersonal relations, based on reciprocal respect to the intangibility of individual freedom, could be reduced to the common denominator of a ¿being-recognized¿ (Anerkanntsein). Finally, the task is to consider how Hegel integrates, in the Philosophy of Spirit 1805/06, the ¿struggle for recognition¿ into an argumentation that articulates the participative form of intersubjectivity with the genesis of the ethical solidarity that is vinculated to the social actuality of the universal will, which is, for the first time in Hegel's philosophical development, understood in its immediacy as right (Recht). As a conclusion, we summarize some indications of a possible extension of this presented view to an interpretation of Hegel's Philosophy of Right / Doutorado / Doutor em Filosofia

This study examines the major works of Judith Sargent Murray, Hannah Webster Foster, and Susanna Haswell Rowson, three major writers of the 1790s whose writing responds to the ideologies of the early American Republic. I suggest that Murray, Foster, and Rowson write conduct fiction which responds to the changing attitudes toward women and education after the American Revolution. Using fiction, these authors comment on the republican woman, the need for women’s education, and the necessity for women to gather in communities for support. Despite the prevailing notion that reading too many novels would corrupt young women, Judith Sargent Murray’s novella, The Story of Margaretta (1786), Hannah Webster Foster’s novels, The Coquette (1797) and The Boarding School (1798), and Susanna Rowson’s novels, Charlotte Temple (1794) and Reuben and Rachel; or, Tales of Old Times (1798), were some of the most popular books in the late eighteenth century. If these novels were not meant to be read by young women, who were the authors’ primary audience, why were they so popular? This project situates these questions in the political environment the authors were writing in to show that a relationship exists between what women were reading and how authors of conduct fiction helped facilitate the changing roles of women in the early Republic

This dissertation examines ways in which women constructed and criticized matrimony both before and after their own marriages. Social historians have argued for the rise of companionacy in the eighteenth century without paying attention to women's accounts of the fears and uncertainties surrounding the prospect of marriage. I argue that having more latitude to choose a husband did not diminish the enormous impact that the choice would have on the rest of a woman's life; if anything, choice might increase that impact. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Mulso Chapone, Mary Delany, and Eliza Haywood recorded their anxieties about and their criticisms of marriage in public and private writings from the early years of the century into the 1750s. They often elide their own complex backgrounds in favor of generalized policy statements on what constitutes a good marriage. These women promote an ideal of marriage based on respect and similarity of character, suggesting that friendship is more honest, and durable than romantic love. This definition of ideal marriage enables these women to argue for more egalitarian marital relationships without overtly calling for a change in the wife's traditional role. The advancement of this ideal of companionacy gave women a means of promoting gender equality in marriage at a time when they considered marriage risky but socially and economically necessary.

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Tableau d’honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2009-2010 / Les abbés Pierre Maillard, Jean-Louis Le Loutre et François Picquet ont joué le rôle d'intermédiaires politiques entre l'administration coloniale de la Nouvelle-France et les Amérindiens de 1734 à 1763. Les pertes territoriales liées à la signature du traité d'Utrecht de 1713 incitent la France à maintenir son réseau d'alliances avec les Micmacs de l'Acadie et les Iroquois de la vallée laurentienne. La présence missionnaire s'avère alors essentielle pour mettre en application les politiques coloniales françaises. Les prêtres sont appelés à collaborer avec l'administration coloniale puisqu'ils possèdent un ascendant sur leurs ouailles lié à leur formation sacredotale ainsi qu'à leur connaisance des langues et des moeurs amérindiennes. En outre, leur entreprise de christianisation converge avec les intérêts politiques français. Les activités qu'ils mènent sur les scènes diplomatique et militaire montrent enfin qu'ils tentent de rendre l'attachement des Amérindiens à la religion catholique indissociable de la fidélité à la France.

Progression d'un concept, le mal radical, dans trois textes :La Religion dans les limites de la simple raison (Kant), Le système de l'Ethique (Fichte), et Le Traité de 1809 (Schelling). Origine ultime du mal :libre arbitre ou détermination ?Responsabilité et liberté du mal. Mal moral et métaphysique du mal/ Advance of a concept: radical evil, in three readings: Religion within the Limits of Mere Reason (Kant), System of Ethics (Fichte), and Treatise of 1809 (Schelling).Ultimate origin of evil: free will or determination? Responsibility and freedom to evil. Moral evil and metaphysics of evil. / Doctorat en Philosophie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished