ENGLISH 3G06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mary Wollstonecraft, Gilbert Imlay, Misanthropy
16 Apr 2017
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Nature becomes part of the french revolutionary discourse. Natural rights: these rights that people have are above the law. Liberty, property, safety and resistance to oppression. Nature is compromised so there needed to be a redefinition of what nature is. There is a reluctance on giving up on natural right and liberty. In nature, there is something so pure, that humans cannot access it. The french revolution could get to the pure essence of nature. Resistance to tyranny and other natural liberties are disillusioned. What they wanted to succeed had failed. There is a pure essence that is the divine. Mary wollstonecraft, from letters written during a short residence in sweden, norway and denmark (1796) An influential participant in the debate over the justice of the french revolution (most notably i her 1790 a vindication of the right of men) Appealed to natural law in support of the revolution, as well as in her arguments about the.
