Émilie du Châtelet · Science
Du Châtelet’s <em>Discourse on Happiness</em>: her defence of the love of study as the passion that most makes us happy and, for a woman shut out of every public career, the one road to freedom and dignity of mind - and her fight, against her whole age, simply to be educated at all.
You learned that in her Discourse on Happiness du Châtelet argued we should cultivate rather than crush the passions, that the love of study is the passion that contributes most to happiness because it makes us least dependent on others, and that study was for her the one path to freedom open to a woman. Explain her a…
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