Margaret Cavendish - Philosophical Letters (selections)

[@Paraselene_Tao]

Around 26:00 iirc, the Japanese kanji for "artificial" is the kanji of "human" and "work" combined. "人工" where "人" is human/person and 工 is work/build. The English word 'ART'ificial is also indicative of this idea. Human-built might be the most plain and simple form of the idea. I still feel like 人工, artificial, human-built is a part of nature.

[@bobsmith-gn7ly]

It makes sense to me that space and time are not real things. They are concepts to help us describe things. "Space" is the relative position of objects, and "time" is the sequence of events (that is why it is always expressed as a count). So I would agree with her, there is only now, and there is only here (or the position an object is).

[@Paraselene_Tao]

Around 34:30, something that's bothered me for a while is this idea that thought is separate from other senses. The feeling I have is that Thought is a Sense, highly developed in humans, yet still a Sense(??). I watched all of your ancient philosophy lectures and up to this video in modern... I've explored other bits of philosophy, but I haven't found an explanation of that issue. Are there major people who think through this topic: is Thought a Sense? Edit: Haha, I saw how Locke gets to this issue in the next lectures.

[@ahmednabi7640]

I’m sorry but ur explanation is a very simplistic approach to her argument and I’m genuinely pissed cause I have to write a paper about her and ur not a lot of help

[@khalilpineda6035]

same theres little serious engagement with her work apparently we have to make it up

[@gutzimmumdo4910]

this is history of philosophy not "margareths top 10 arguments" .

[@taquitobandito6054]

Here is a tip from a college student, aka myself. If there is not much information about someone you are writing about, then stick to the time period. For instance, Margaret was the second duchess of Newcastle, she was well educated and loved to read. She wrote about the scientific revolution and loved to learn about science and enjoyed philosophy. She enjoyed fashion and would wear these magnificent outfits wherever she went. She was essentially the David Lee Roth of early Literature, if you will. At the time she was alive women were not writers nor were they educated. She loved to write about romance, religion, and responsibilities of keeping a household in shape. She was highly persistent with her works, and no one could stop her from writing. She received heavy criticism that her books were not allowed to be published because of the fact that she was a woman and that the topics she wrote about were off limits to females. When her books were published in 1666, there were massive wars, famine, and even the Black Plague was starting to wreak havoc among most of Europe. There is so much you can talk about with these early writers because of the sheer history during the time. The Black Plague, the Battle of Dunkirk which they made an entire movie off of. There is so much history here and if there is no information about her, which there is because 1666 was nearly 500 years ago, you can always reference her books. READ READ READ PEOPLE. READ THE TEXT. WRITE THE TEXT OUT. DIAGRAM IT. WRITE DATES DOWN. WRITE DOWN NAMES. WRITE WRITE WRITE. If you are writing a 10 page essay, read through her stories, take your finger and just go line by line looking for dates, names, places, etc. and just write them down. If you are writing about a text like Beowulf, go through the story, God is mentioned throughout the story, write about how Christian themes seem to overlap in the story and go off of that. If you are doing an essay over Dante's Inferno, read through the text, write about why Dante chose these people to go to hell, why he wanted them to suffer. I know this is 2 years past, but what I said is very helpful, just read read and read everything. Writing an essay does not happen in 3 hours. It is a gradual process that takes days of preparation and writing. You cannot write a good essay overnight, nor should you. Write the text first, then find sources for what you wrote about. That way you are not bombarded with 10,000 things to write about and you become unmotivated. Best of luck.

[@taquitobandito6054]

@@gutzimmumdo4910 True he is a professor teaching philosophy not literature lol. If you want an in-depth look at her writings then take a British Literature class.

[@Daniel_25]

Boo hoo