SOAN 2111 Chapter Notes -Catharine Macaulay, John Locke
2 Mar 2013
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Catharine macaulay (1731-1791) liberal political views supported the american and the french revolution supported proposals for nonsexist education supported the refusal to glorify war. Human knowledge can only be gained by experience and observation shared the enlightenment confidence in the power of reason: authority and custom were often sources of error. Experience showed that in our widest deviations from the dictates of reason, the mind if often more in fault than the body . Education would be remarkably similar for the two sexes in macaulay"s system. Let your children be brought up together; let their sports and studies be the same". Executions should be private since brutality coarsened people"s moral sentiments: she was not opposed completely to the death penalty but would restrict its use considerably, ceremonies regarding execution should be made as awful as possible.
