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Overcoming the Divide between Freedom and Nature: Clarisse Coignet on the Metaphysics of Independent Morality

Dunham, Jeremy

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Clarisse Coignet (1823-1918) played an important role in a number of the most important intellectual movements in nineteenth-century France. She grew up around and documented the leaders of the Fourierist movement, provided the philosophical support for the La Morale indépendante (an influential movement that promoted the rebuilding of French society on the basis of free morality, rather than religion), and spent twenty years defending the secularization of education and improving French primary schools. She developed her own theoretical and practical philosophy and applied it in the social world to play her part in the transformation of her country “from more or less an absolute monarchy, into a free republic” (Coignet, 1903: 7). Despite all of this, her work has received very little philosophical attention. This article focuses on the theoretical underpinnings of her practical philosophy, and the importance of her engagement with the French spiritualist tradition for its development.

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Dunham, J. (2020). Overcoming the Divide between Freedom and Nature: Clarisse Coignet on the Metaphysics of Independent Morality. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 28(5), 987-1008. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2019.1668351

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 12, 2019
Online Publication Date Nov 14, 2019
Publication Date 2020
Deposit Date Oct 25, 2019
Publicly Available Date May 14, 2021
Journal British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Print ISSN 0960-8788
Electronic ISSN 1469-3526
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 28
Issue 5
Pages 987-1008
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2019.1668351

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