Reason is ‘the simple power of improvement’, Of reason in an entirely positive and forward thinking, if eclectic, manner. Of the soul while dispensing with the need for divine retribution or punishment in the afterlife. Although nominally Anglican, Wollstonecraft developed her own religious creed, asserting the immortality ‘her religion was almost entirely of her own creation’. Her conceptualization of reason is distinctive and unique, just as, according to William Godwin, But what exactly does Wollstonecraft mean by reason? The mainstream of European Enlightenment philosophers, from John Locke to Voltaire In privileging the faculty of reason, Wollstonecraft joins ‘the nature of reason must be the same in all’ (167).
Though the presence of reason may be more evident in certain individuals than in others, In this passage, Wollstonecraft presents the heart of her argument for the equality of men and women: both possess Mary Wollstonecraft builds her case for women’s rights on the foundational assumption that all human beings possess If she have, which, for a moment, I will take for granted, she was not created merely to be the solace of man,Īnd the sexual should not destroy the human character. Theories, and considering woman as a whole, let it be what it will, instead of a part of man, the inquiry is whether she have Is always represented as only created to see through a gross medium, and to take things on trust. May love,’ the soul of woman is not allowed to have this distinction, and man, ever placed between her and reason, she Of its own reason? Yet outwardly ornamented with elaborate care, and so adorned to delight man, ‘that with honour he The creature with the Creator for, can that soul be stamped with the heavenly image, that is not perfected by the exercise More or less may be conspicuous in oneīeing than another but the nature of reason must be the same in all, if it be an emanation of divinity, the tie that connects Every individual is in this respect a world in itself. Reason is, consequentially, the simple power of improvement or, more properly But, in the present state of things, every difficulty in morals that escapes from human discussion,Īnd equally baffles the investigation of profound thinking, and the lightning glance of genius, is an argument on which Iīuild my belief in the immortality of the soul. Him, when he arrived at maturity, that precluded error, I should doubt whether his existence would be continued after theĭissolution of the body. The phrase, is the perfectibility of human reason for, were man created perfect, or did a flood of knowledge break in upon The stamen of immortality, if I may be allowed
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