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An important thinker who contributed to eighteenth-century debates in epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, Catharine Trotter Cockburn pursued the life of a dramatist and essayist, despite the prevailing social, cultural, and moral prescriptions of her day. Cockburn's philosophical writings were polemical pieces in defence of such philosophers as John Locke and Samuel Clarke, in which she grappled with the moral and theological questions that concerned them and produced her own unique answers to those questions. Her works are interesting both for their approach to philosophical issues that continue to be debated today and for the way that they inform our understanding of the early-modern period.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Catharine Trotter Cockburn: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
A Defence of Mr. Locke's Essay of Human Understanding, wherein its Principles, with reference to Morality, Revealed Religion, and the Immortality of the Soul, are considered and justified: In answer to some Remarks on that Essay (1702)
Remarks upon some Writers in the Controversy concerning the Foundation of Moral Virtue and Moral Obligation; particularly the Translator of Archbishop King's Origin of Evil, and the author of the Divine Legation of Moses (1743)
Remarks upon the Principles and Reasonings of Dr. Rutherforth's Essay on the Nature and Obligations of Virtue: In vindication of the contrary principles and reasonings, enforced in the writings of the late Dr. Samuel Clarke (1747)
Appendix: Selections from Cockburn's Correspondence
Select Bibliography
Index
