Divine Justice and Hierarchy: Human Nature in Anne Conway

Anne Finch Conway (1631-1679) is one of the women philosophers that argued with the principal philosophers of her period. The only work that we had from her is Principia Philosophiae Anticissimae et Recentissimae (1690) or The Principle of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1692). In this paper I propose to present human nature role in her metaphysics, in order to find a specific place for pain and suffering in a world that seems to be governed first of all by reciprocal love and sympathy. The concept of man as microcosmos and its relationship with Christ is important in her work, and it has not been enough emphasised in the bibliography. With this goal, I will present her metaphysics, paying special attention to the created substance and its relationship to the middle substance, Christ, and the first substance, God. In this way, I will give account of human nature responsibility with the created world, and I will mention the ecologic topic in Conway's thought, because human nature perfection is perfection for the whole nature.