Mary Wollstonecraft · Politics
Before she vindicated the rights of woman, Wollstonecraft vindicated the rights of <em>men</em> - the very first published answer to Burke’s attack on the French Revolution, defending reason and natural rights against reverence for the past.
You learned that Wollstonecraft’s first Vindication answered Burke. In your own words, why did she argue that inherited rank and reverence for the past were enemies of reason and justice?
Leads to Thomas Paine.
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