• DOI:10.1080/01916599.2012.735136
Corpus ID: 144679770

‘Elementary Principles of Education’: Elizabeth Hamilton, Maria Edgeworth and the Uses of Common Sense Philosophy

@article{Rendall2013ElementaryPO,
  title={‘Elementary Principles of Education’: Elizabeth Hamilton, Maria Edgeworth and the Uses of Common Sense Philosophy},
  author={J. Rendall},
  journal={History of European Ideas},
  year={2013},
  volume={39},
  pages={613 - 630}
}

• J. Rendall
• Published 2013
• Sociology
• History of European Ideas

Summary Both Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Hamilton drew extensively on Scottish moral philosophy, and especially on the work of Dugald Stewart, in constructing educational programmes that rested on the assumption that women, and especially mothers, were intellectually capable of understanding the importance of the early association of ideas in the training of children's emotions and reasoning powers. As liberals they found in Stewart's work routes toward intellectual and social progress—both… Expand

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