Lloyd's 1979 paper The Man of Reason explores the influence of seventeenth century
rationalist philosophy on contemporary views of gender and reason.[3] It argues that
Cartesian method encouraged a new polarisation between reason, on the one side, and emotion and imagination on the other. The Man of Reason was further elevated to an ethical (not merely epistemic) ideal in Spinoza's
Ethics. Even though Descartes and Spinoza's rationalism is less popular today, Lloyd argues that we continue to live with the ideal of the Man of Reason their work gave rise to. She went on to develop these ideas further in her 1984
book of the same name.
Lloyd, Genevieve (2005), "The man of reason", in
Cudd, Ann E.; Andreasen, Robin O. (eds.), Feminist theory: a philosophical anthology, Oxford, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 177–187,
ISBN9781405116619.
References
^Lloyd, Genevieve (1941–)Encyclopedia of Philosophy Macmillan Reference USA, cited at BookRags(subscription required)