Course Of Popular Lectures - Softcover

Frances Wright

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461873397 ISBN 13: 9780461873399

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Course Of Popular Lectures by Frances Wright. Course Of Popular Lectures presents a radical early-19th-century program of social reform in a collection of lectures delivered in New York, Philadelphia, and other cities. Wright argues that human progress rests on just knowledge and free enquiry rather than inherited authority. The volume opens with Preface and introductory addresses, then a sequence of lectures on the nature of knowledge, free enquiry, divisions of knowledge, religion, morals, and the formation of opinions, followed by critiques of existing evils and proposals for radical reform, including universal education and the transformation of religious instruction into secular halls of science. Wright advocates gender equality, the emancipation of women’s minds, and the expansion of public learning as the foundation of liberty and happiness. The work also includes responses to critics and public addresses around the Fourth of July, 1828–1829, and an Analytic Table of contents. The compilation documents Wright’s commitment to human improvement through reason, science, and humane institutions.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461873397
• ISBN 13: 9780461873399
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256