ABSTRACT A central project of Enlightenment thought is to ground claims to natural freedom and equality. This project is the foundation of Suchon’s view of freedom. But it is not the whole story. For, Suchon’s focus is not just natural freedom, but also the necessary and sufficient conditions for oppressed members of society, women, to avail themselves of this freedom. In this paper I, first, treat Suchon’s normative argument for women’s right to develop their rational minds. In Section 2, I consider Suchon’s three necessary and sufficient conditions for freedom and the manners in which women are blocked from meeting them. The normative argument together with the obstacles to women meeting the conditions for freedom raises the question of how to get women into a position where they can enjoy the freedom to which they are entitled. In Section 3, I outline Suchon’s answer: women must live a life without attachment. I argue this answer situates Suchon both chronologically and theoretically between the Béguines, a medieval women’s spiritual movement, and twentieth-century feminist separatism. I conclude that Suchon’s view of freedom is radical, both for its time and ours, and deserves greater attention from historians of philosophy and of feminist thought.

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加布里埃尔·苏松，自由和中立的生活

摘要 启蒙思想的一个核心项目是确立对自然自由和平等的主张。这个项目是Suchon 自由观的基础。但这并不是故事的全部。因为，Suchon 的重点不仅是自然的自由，而且是受压迫的社会成员，妇女，利用这种自由的必要和充分条件。在本文中，我首先处理苏颂关于女性理性思维发展权的规范性论证。在第 2 节中，我考虑了 Suchon 的三个必要和充分条件，以及女性被阻止与这些条件会面的方式。规范性争论以及妇女满足自由条件的障碍提出了如何让妇女进入她们可以享受她们应得的自由的位置的问题。在第 3 节中，我概述了苏颂的回答：女人必须过一种没有依恋的生活。我认为这个答案在时间顺序和理论上将苏颂置于中世纪妇女精神运动贝吉恩运动和 20 世纪女权主义分离主义之间。我的结论是，苏颂的自由观在当时和我们的时代都是激进的，值得哲学史家和女权主义思想史家给予更多关注。