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Catharine Macaulay, nata Sawbridge, ( Olantigh, 23 marzo 1731 – Binfield, 22 giugno 1791) è stata una storica britannica . Indice. 1 Primi anni. 2 The History of England. 3 Politica. 4 Matrimonio con William Graham. 5 Treatise on the Immutability of Moral Truth. 6 Letters on Education. 7 Visita negli Stati Uniti. 8 Ultimi anni. 9 Opere. 10 Note.
Catharine Macaulay (née Sawbridge, later Graham; 23 March 1731 – 22 June 1791), was an English Whig republican historian.
5 lug 2012 · Her most philosophical work, A Treatise on the Immutability of Moral Truth (1783), developed the doctrine of the will that she called “moral necessity”; this work was partly reproduced in her Letters on Education (1790), which was, in turn, reviewed by, and profoundly influenced, Mary Wollstonecraft. 1.
Catharine Macaulay was a British historian and radical political writer. She was privately educated, and her readings in Greek and Roman history inculcated in her an enthusiasm for libertarian and republican ideals. Following her marriage to the Scottish physician George Macaulay in 1760, she began.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A differenza di Mary Wollstonecraft, Catharine Macaulay non combatte per i diritti della donna. Crede nell’importanza dell’educazione paritaria tra i ceti e i sessi, ma non è una sostenitrice del suffragio universale.
23 feb 2023 · The writings of republican historian and political pamphleteer Catharine Macaulay (1731–91) played a central role in debates about political reform in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution.
Macaulay was an English philosopher born near Canterbury in 1731. In 1760 she married the Scottish physician George Macaulay, with whom she had a daughter. After her husband’s death, she married the 26 years younger William Graham.
