Damaris Cudworth Masham 1659 – 1708
Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659 – 1708) was an English philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Empiricism and Early Modern Philosophy.
Damaris Cudworth, Lady Masham, was an English philosopher and one of the most accomplished women thinkers of the late seventeenth century. The daughter of the Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth, she carried on a long philosophical correspondence and friendship with John Locke, who spent his last years at her home at Oates in Essex. Her two anonymously published treatises, A Discourse concerning the Love of God and Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life, defend a rational and educated piety and the importance of women's education for moral and religious life.
Key facts
- Nationality
- English
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Empiricism, Early Modern Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Damaris Cudworth Masham:
“Reason is the duty of every rational being.”
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Attributed to Damaris Cudworth Masham:
“True virtue requires inquiry, not mere conformity.”
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“The education of women is no less important than the education of men.”
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“We love God most when we know him most truly.”
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Attributed to Damaris Cudworth Masham:
“The mind grows by use and shrinks by neglect.”
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- Damaris Cudworth Masham was an English philosopher of the Modern era.
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- Damaris Cudworth, Lady Masham, was an English philosopher and one of the most accomplished women thinkers of the late seventeenth century.
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