SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Social Statistics, Domestic Violence, Male Privilege
7 Apr 2014
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Astell life and ideas (1668 1731) first english feminist and first christian feminist contribution to methodology because she was a woman she wasn"t looked at in regards to her work shared conservative politics within the church. Divine rights kind of like hobbes. Cartesian terminology: theology: defining knowledge in terms of clear and distinct ideas, considerable scope for opinion , weighing and comparing evidence, can"t take bare words on trust. Astell allowed ideas of limited place for innate ideas: she warned of the possibilities of error in sense perception. Too easy to regard the opinion of others: ignorance then can"t be avoided but error may . Errors come from our senses biased by others who are strong willed. New ways of thinking, deducing societal issues. Knowledge is argued by reason and deduction. Contrary to idealists, she held that there are many truths our minds cannot comprehend: used the plural for understanding(s) and mind(s) unlike plato: mind over matter".
