This article studies Madame de Lambert's early eighteenth‐century views on aging, and especially the aging of women, by contextualizing them in a twofold way: (1) It understands them as a response to La Rochefoucauld's skepticism concerning aging, women, and the aging of women; (2) It understands them as being closely connected to a long series of scattered remarks concerning esteem, self‐esteem, and honnêteté in Lambert's moral essays. Whereas La Rochefoucauld describes aging as a decline of intellectual, emotional, and physical powers and is suspicious of the mechanisms of esteem and self‐esteem, Lambert develops a view of aging as offering the chance to become more independent of the judgment of others, especially the chance for women to become more independent of the judgment of men. As she argues, aging offers women the possibility of cultivating genuinely estimable intellectual and emotional qualities that attract the justified esteem essential for a stable friendship, as well as the opportunity to develop a form of self‐esteem that is based on respect for one's own capacities of judgment.

中文翻译：

---

安妮·瑟雷斯·兰伯特（Anne-Thérèsede Lambert）关于衰老和自尊

本文通过两种方式研究了兰伯特夫人在18世纪早期关于衰老，尤其是妇女衰老的观点：（1）将其理解为对拉·罗奇福柯（La Rochefoucauld）对衰老，妇女和衰老的怀疑的回应。妇女 （2）理解他们作为被紧密相连关于自尊，自尊和很长的一系列零散的言论honnêteté在兰伯特的道德论文中。La Rochefoucauld将衰老描述为智力，情感和身体能力的下降，并对自尊和自尊的机制产生怀疑，而Lambert则将衰老视为提供了变得更加独立于他人的判断力的机会，尤其是妇女有更多机会独立于男人的判断力。正如她所说，老龄化为妇女提供了培养真正可估量的智力和情感素质的可能性，这些素质吸引了对稳定友谊必不可少的正当自尊，并有机会发展一种基于尊重自己能力的自尊的形式判断力。