Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature: Collected Works of Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale’s work on the methodology of social science and her views on social reform. Here we see how she took her “call to service” into practice: by first learning how the laws of God’s world operate, one can then determine how to intervene for good. There is material on medical statistics, the census, pauperism and Poor Law reform, the need for income security measures and better housing, on crime, gender and the family. Her comments on a new edition of The Dialogues of Plato are given, with their impact on the revision of the next edition. We see Nightingale’s condemnation of Plato’s “community of wives,” with her stirring approval of love (even outside marriage!), marriage and the family. In this volume also her views on natural science, education and literature are reported. Nightingale was an astute behind-the-scenes political activist. Society and Politics publishes (much of it for the first time) her correspondence with such leading political figures as Queen Victoria, W.E. Gladstone and J.S. Mill. There are notes and essays on public administration and personal observations on various members of royalty, prime ministers and ministers, and Indian viceroys. Nightingale’s support of the vote for women (contrary to much in the secondary literature) is here shown. Correspondence and notes on British general elections from 1834 to 1900 is reported, with letters to and for (Liberal) political candidates and fierce condemnations of Conservatives. Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary. |
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... ............................................................ Jowett's Dialogues of Plato .................................................................. Other Philosophers, Greek to Modern ........................
... Jowett's translation of The Dialogues of Plato , with Florence Nightingale's annotations . 5. Florence Nightingale's annotations of The Republic in Benjamin Jowett's translation of The Dialogues of Plato . 6. Florence Nightingale's ...
... Jowett's Dialogues of Plato , showing that he largely took her advice in revision for a second edition . There are notes on Socrates , Aristotle , Marcus Aurelius , Leibniz and Spinoza . Her views on astronomy , botany , Darwinism ...
... Jowett ] , " that He governs the world with the least pain possible consistently with His purposes of educating mankind ? " Certainly He would not be a perfect God who did other- wise . Only , would you put it as if God were a rival ...
... Jowett on Quetelet and Probability Editor : The material following consists of further notes of Quetelet's Physique sociale , catalogued with notes shared with Benjamin Jowett . Whether or not Jowett commented on them ( or indeed if ...
Contents
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Essays Notes and Letters | 277 |
Philosophy Science Education and Literature | 549 |
Appendixes | 825 |
Bibliography | 839 |
Index | 849 |