Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679-1749) was a British Catholic moral philosopher, poet and playwright. She taught herself to write as a child, and wrote her first play's Agnes de Castro and The Fatal Friendship in 1697. Her first philosophical work Remarks upon some Writers in the Controversy concerning the Foundation of Moral Duty and Moral Obligations in 1939, and it was published in The History of the Works of the Learned. in 1743. Events January 24 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament August 7 - The brigantine Le Griffon, which was commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes. ... Events While in debtors prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). ... Ethics (from Greek ἦθος meaning custom) is the branch of axiology, one of the four major branches of philosophy, which attempts to understand the nature of morality; to distinguish that which is right from that which is wrong. ... A philosopher is a person who thinks deeply regarding people, society, the world, and/or the universe. ... A poet is some one who writes poetry. ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ...

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• Cockburn Timeline
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