Abstract
Abstract
Wollstonecraft’s call for a revolution in female manners entails a revolution of loves, earthly and divine. That such a revolution is inherently political has been denied or ignored by many, a source of anxiety for others. From premoderns like Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine to late moderns like Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Stanley Hauerwas, Martha Nussbaum, Alexander Nehamas, and Danielle Allen the political perils of love, friendship, and religion have been a matter of ongoing dispute. Wollstonecraft is keenly aware of the dangers of disordered loves. Oppressive relations of every kind require a revolution, a reordering of loves, desires, and relations as well as of laws, social norms, and institutions. The political virtues of friendship, generosity, and charity or love supplement the virtues of justice by perfecting all manner of loves—love of self, family, spouse, friends, strangers, enemies, country, nature, and God. Such virtues simply are common goods.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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