Anne Conway | |
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Samuel_van_Hoogstraten_-_Perspective_View_with_a_Woman_Reading_a_Letter_-_66_-_Mauritshuis.jpg) Perspective View with a Woman Reading a Letter by Samuel van Hoogstraten. This painting is often thought to depict Anne Conway, though that attribution has been disputed.[1] | |
| Born | Anne Finch 14 December 1631 London, England |
| Died | 23 February 1679 (aged 47) Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, England |
| Resting place | Holy Trinity Church, Arrow, Warwickshire[1] |
| Occupation | Philosopher |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Heneage Edward Conway |
| Parent(s) | Sir Heneage Finch Elizabeth Cradock |
| Relatives | John Finch (brother) |
Anne Conway (also known as Viscountess Conway; née Finch; 14 December 1631 – 23 February 1679[2]) was an English philosopher of the Enlightenment, whose work was in the tradition of the Cambridge Platonists. Conway's thought is a deeply original form of rationalist philosophy, with hallmarks of gynocentric concerns and patterns that lead some to think of it as unique among seventeenth-century systems.[3] Conways work was an influence on Gottfried Leibniz, and Hugh Trevor-Roper called her "England's greatest female philosopher."[4][5]
- ^ a b "Conway (1631-1679)". Project Vox. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
- ^ Hutton, Sarah (2009). "Death". Anne Conway : a woman philosopher. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 215. ISBN 9780521109819. OCLC 909355784.
- ^ Jane Duran (2006). Eight Women Philosophers: Theory, Politics, And Feminism. University of Illinois Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-252-03022-2.
- ^ Trevor-Roper, Hugh. One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper, Oxford 2014, 73
- ^ Israel, Jonathan I. Spinoza, Life and Legacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2023, 1127-28