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    contrasting views on the concept of education and its relationship to virtue when reading Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women, Rousseau’s Second Discourse, and The Analects of Confucius. While Wollstonecraft and Confucius have similar views on the necessity of education to achieve virtue, Rousseau views education as a source of corruption and vice. In Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women, education is a tool used to gain freedom and be proactive in determining one’s fate

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    ideas and call attention to problems that are brewing in their society. Mary Wollstonecraft wrote an essay to expose the poor treatment of women in the late 1700’s. In Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights Of Women”, she indicts her society by revealing the injustice of her society towards women. Her vindication has been echoed in other works such as “Goblin Market” which also shows the condemning of women who choose to go against the grain and live to please themselves instead of others. Mary

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    Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is considered by many to be the foundation for feminism. Wollstonecraft did not believe that the sexes were equal, nor that they should be treated as such; furthermore, the contemporary ideas that if a woman chooses to work outside her home that she should get paid equal wages as a man, and that women should go into combat beside the men may have seemed ridiculous to her. Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to stress

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    In A Vindication of Rights of Woman, Wollstonecraft expresses her thoughts on marriage, as she describes that women become obedient, dependent, and underdeveloped when they are married: “the obedience required of women in the marriage state, comes under this description; the mind, naturally weakened by depending on authority, never exerts its own powers, and the obedient wife is thus rendered a weak indolent mother” (1792: 44). The broken relationship between Eliza and Edward in Mary embodies this

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    and social standards in A Vindication of the Right of Women is present in the first paragraph. 3. The line from this paragraph reads “that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will not stop the progression of knowledge and virtue; for the truth must be common to all”(211). 4. Wollstonecraft continues to express in this work, many arguments about the moral right of members of the female sex to be educated. 5. In chapter two of A Vindication of the Right of Women Mary

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    her claim. Wollstonecraft argues that women have more purpose in society rather than solely acting as beauties and property to trade in marriage. Women deserve the same fundamental rights as men, including the natural rights stated by Locke (“A Vindication”). Wollstonecraft not only wanted these rights for women, but believed these rights served a necessary part in society. In order for women to have equal rights in society, Wollstonecraft argued that they must become better educated. Although society

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    A Vindication of the Rights of Women The novel A Vindication of the Rights of Women, by Mary Wollstonecraft, has helped change and shape the 1700’s and modern ideas and government. Mary, being a women’s rights activist, she had many opinions of her own that she shared in her book as well as other ideas to solve problems involving unequally to women. In the long run, Mary’s writings have made a large impact to both men and women in the last century and so on. Mary Wollstonecraft was an English

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    The title of one of the earliest and most significant pieces of feminist literature has often been attributed to Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Influenced and inspired by Enlightenment philosophy, associated with John Locke's ideas of natural rights and liberty, and the French and American Revolutions, Wollstonecraft heavily crtiticizes the subservient role almost automatically assumed by women from birth and argues for the amelioration of women's rights through education

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    century, early human rights activists emerged in Europe as a result of the Enlightenment. Mary Wollstonecraft, a prominent liberal feminist, was of such that first argued for women’s rights amidst patriarchal dominance. In Wollstonecraft’s essay A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, she demands the same fundamental rights for women as obtained by men. Wollstonecraft begins the excerpt by predicting the status of women in time to come and the liberties they might later receive. She then proceeds to listing

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    In this paper I’ll be summarizing the main arguments of the two authors that we’ve looked at over the span of the last few weeks, the first author I’ll be analyzing is Mary Wollstonecraft, a vindication of the rights of woman, with structures on political and moral subjects, and the second author I’ll be analyzing is Toussaint L’ouverture and summarizing his arguments. In this paper I will be summarizing a media representation of a contemporary issue that has been in the news last year and has recently

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