Nísia Floresta

Nísia Floresta - Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy

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This Element presents the philosophical contributions of Nìsia Floresta, a feminist philosopher of education from the 19th century in early post-colonial Brazil, who defended abolition and indigenous rights. Focusing on five central works (Direitos, Lágrima, Opúsculo, Páginas, and Woman), it shows them connected by a critique of colonialism grounded on feminist principles. Influenced by the practical Cartesianism of Poulain de la Barre through the pamphlets of Sophia, Floresta applies to the social structures the feminist principle that reason has no gender, arguing that a nation's civilizational level depends on whether natural equality is expressed in terms of social rights. Describing the suffering experienced by women, indigenous people, and the black enslaved population, she defends education as a strategy against colonialism. As such, education should aim towards physical and intellectual emancipation, restoring the lost dignity of individuals. Floresta's works thus foreground slavery and colonization as events that shaped philosophical modernity.

Book information

ISBN: 9781009124133
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 305.42092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 75
Weight: 112g
Height: 229mm
Width: 151mm
Spine width: 9mm