Gabrielle Suchon 1632 – 1703
Gabrielle Suchon (1632 – 1703) was a French philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Early Modern Philosophy and Feminism.
Gabrielle Suchon was a French philosopher and one of the most original feminist political philosophers of the Grand Siecle, who escaped the Dominican convent into which her family had placed her and lived as a freelance writer in seventeenth-century Lyon. Her Treatise on Morality and Politics, published in 1693 under the pseudonym G. S. Aristophile, mounted a sustained Aristotelian and Thomist defense of women's rights to liberty, knowledge, and authority, and against the threefold deprivation of these goods imposed on women by custom and law. Her shorter On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen offered the first sustained philosophical defense of voluntary single life as a vocation rather than a misfortune.
Key facts
- Nationality
- French
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Early Modern Philosophy, Feminism
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Gabrielle Suchon:
“Women are deprived of liberty, of knowledge, and of authority; the philosopher must speak for them in turn.”
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Attributed to Gabrielle Suchon:
“The celibate life freely chosen is not the renunciation of love, but the freedom to choose its objects.”
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Attributed to Gabrielle Suchon:
“What is denied to half the human race is denied to humanity itself.”
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Attributed to Gabrielle Suchon:
“A woman who governs herself by reason owes obedience to no one but reason.”
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Attributed to Gabrielle Suchon:
“The schools of philosophy are closed to us; let domestic life become our school.”
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- Gabrielle Suchon was associated with Early Modern Philosophy and Feminism.
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- Gabrielle Suchon was a French philosopher and one of the most original feminist political philosophers of the Grand Siecle, who escaped the Dominican convent into which her family had placed her and lived as a freelance writer in seventeenth-century Lyon.
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