DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-DA021-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 20, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/conway-anne-c-1630-79/v-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 20, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/conway-anne-c-1630-79/v-1
Article Summary
Anne Conway (née Finch) was the most important of the few English women who engaged in philosophy in the seventeenth century. Her reputation derives from one work published after her death, Principia philosophiae antiquissimae et recentissimae (1690), which proposes a Neoplatonic system of metaphysics featuring a monistic concept of created substance. The work entails a critique of the dualism of both Descartes and Henry More, as well as of the materialism (as she saw it) of Hobbes and Spinoza. In her concept of the monad and her emphasis on the benevolence of God, Conway’s system has some interesting affinities with that of Leibniz.
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