Forgotten Thinkers: Emilie du Chatelet
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- Опубликовано: 18 мар 2016
- Visit my new website: www.wescecil.com A lecture exploring the life and thought of the 18th century thinker Emilie du Chatelet. Delivered at Peninsula College by Wesley Cecil PhD. I apologize for the microphone noise, I had some technical difficulties while recording.
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20:44 loved her philosophy for being happy
This has been SO SO helpful as i have to do a marked presentation for university next week on women in the enlightenment and how they asserted power in both private and public sphere !! Thank You So Much !!
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Because of Voltaire, I came and wanted to know more about her . Nice job!
Amazing talk. Thank you very much. Incredible woman, with a fantastic intelligence .
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Thanks for this amazing information,Wes Cecil! Such a brilliant scientist woman,she get all the glory o the world that she deserve and a postum Nobel Prize.As woman,I'm so pride! Love from Sweden
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I think we do know about her upbringing, somewhat. She was a math prodigy and her father paid for tutors.
+tashmoobabe Not sure she had lots of lovers before she set off on her own at age 27. It would have been unusual. She was obligated to giving birth to the Marquis' undisputed heirs -- which she did, three times. The third died, and after that she resumed her studies, and this was when she was 27 and took up with Voltaire and had other lovers. Women had to have one lover at a time, not just sleep around. And she needed permission from her husband for Voltaire to live with Emilie in the house at Cirey, to avoid ostracism from society. Voltaire even built his own library there. . . . But yes, her husband was nearly always gone on military assignments, and very much supported her studies and life with Voltaire. It was an arranged marriage, but loving in this matter of giving her what she needed. (I suspect she withheld herself sexually from her husband anyway after the death of that child. I also have a strong feeling that the situation with Voltaire was only sexually "hot" for a relatively short time. In fact, he left her for his niece.)
+tashmoobabe The impression that Emilie was brave for standing up to Voltaire is not quite right. The relationship was based on that kind of vigorous intellectual debate. . . . Oh, and that "Discourse on Happiness" is kind of simple by today's standards; she seems to me kind of codependent in relationships and defends her gambling addiction. . . . She championed women's education but didn't offer it to her own daughter, possibly because the daughter had no interest in it; she did well at the Court of Naples, in which she was married at 16. . . . Her taste in opera was first-hand: she was an accomplished opera singer herself. . . . The biggest issue of her life was losing her heart when she lost that child, becoming extremely cerebral. . . . I find it remarkable that she advocated "passions" against the Catholic Church's pieties, a big thing at the time.
Of course she received an excellent education as a child.
You should do a lecture on Carl Jung. One of the most important forgotten thinkers of the twentieth century.
Forgotten? Jung??
@@madmax8405 lol
Jung was but of a drugged up schizo tbh
Do one on Wollstonecraft!
Absolutely!
3::03 Geology should never get off the ground.
Great video.
i love the lecture. the microphone is killing me. the person doing the recording blew it.
Do you plan on doing Alan Watts?
02.06.2022 According to an Australian ABC scientist reporter there are some new obstacles in the history of such a noble woman. Don't you want to make it absolutely clear what attached and charomuted mind is. Those who know what and old wine is are really los expertos de la carta. Oh yeah let's wish that boy to be a real australopitec! Boys and girls are there any other wishes?
Me gustan los comentarios todo lo sano por supuesto
Can someone help me find Examines the Bible?
Some inaccuracies:
From every other source I read, she was a child prodigy in maths from very early on, knew how to ride, learned fencing and was fluent in five or six languages, all thanks to the educaton her father provided for her. She chose to pursue knowledge and science when adult but she certainly didn't start from scratch once married. You make it sound like she was bearly literate before that. I enjoy your lectures - they're fun and lively - but sometimes I can't help but wonder about some of your sources!
By the way, I'm French and I don't recall to have ever had to learn the indroduction to de Gaulle's memoirs by heart while in school. :-) Slight exageration there as well...
I didn't hear him discuss her childhood at all other than saying that very little is known of her childhood?
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Sorry for the late reply, but at 09:50, I hear him say "When she's about 23 or 24, she thinks 'I wanna get an education' [...] and she wasn't really (educated) at this point. She's literate, she can write letters and she can read", etc.
To me, that sounds like a little belittling. She wanted to pursue knowledge (especially philosophy) once adult, but she already was educated; she just didn't want to stop learning and educate herself once married, as did most of the women of her condition at that time.
Maybe some material hasn't been translated to English and so, was not available to him.
I totally agree with you and want to add that the "Discours sur le bonheur" was published in 1779, that is to say posthumous, and that Cirey-sur-Blaise (the place where she lived with Voltaire) was not situated in Lorraine (which was not part of France at the time) but in Champagne.
What an interesting women, shame she isn't talked about more in philosophy circles. At least the ones l've been exposed too.
C1: Forgotten or otherwise, Voltaire would be a good lecture. C2: Her story sounds like Hollywood Oscar bait. C3: More than a few of your subscribers identify with the New Atheist movement. C4: Thanks for yet another great lecture!
Thanks for the hilarious Biblical quotes. Wonderful.
Again with the microphone noises, Such a distraction, such a disappointment.
indeed! maddening. hate it.
Beautiful lecture but terrible sound quality. Be prepared for auditory assault while you are enlightened.