PhilosophersMary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

Women share the same reason: educate them accordingly.

Enlightenment · Feminist philosophy1759 – 1797 United KingdomEnlightenment philosopherPioneer of feminismPolitical thinkerEducator

Inspirations

Locke education shapes the mind; natural rights

Richard Priceher friend, a Dissenting minister and defender of the Revolution

Catharine Macaulaythe Letters on Education (1790)

Rousseau against Sophie's education (Emile, book V)

Edmund Burkeagainst his Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Heirs

John Stuart MillThe Subjection of Women (1869)

Simone de Beauvoir "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman"

Mary Shelleyher daughter, author of Frankenstein

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Closest

Martin Luther King Jr. Minister and leader of the civil rights movement: he defends nonviolent disobedience to unjust laws, openly and accepting the penalty.

Boèce God sees everything in an eternal present: knowing what we will do does not force us to do it.

Galileo Galilei Astronomer and physicist: he holds that nature is read through experiment and mathematics, and that Scripture speaks of salvation, not of the mechanics of the heavens.

Mozi (Mo Di) Love all human beings without distinction: this is the one rule that brings the world peace.

Furthest

Richard Rorty Talk of sensations might one day disappear, replaced by the language of neuroscience.

Peter Wessel Zapffe Sees human consciousness as an evolutionary excess: people bear it only by limiting it, and the only way out would be to stop passing on life.