BF190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mary Wollstonecraft, Noble Savage, Botany
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~ more positive, rational theorists, finds beauty in the state of human nature. ~ recognize, empathy, sympathy, desire, and compassion of people. Believes that what locke believes is the death of humanity. ~ the beauty of humanity is already destroyed. ~ past is faced with abundance and freedom. ~ believed we had pretty good lives but not fulfilling. ~ does not believe we all came together for a specific reason but rather it was a mistake. ~ not fear/reason/desire to accumulate that distinguishes human from other animals but rather freedom/compassion/empathy/pity/sympathy. ~ humans have been screwed over by the perpetuation of the inequality of the system. ~ key theorist - nobody more influential on french revolution. ~ exception - feminism - target of mary wollstonecraft (rightly so) because he excludes the liberatory promise of women. ~ bit of a rascal (left home at 16, hooked up with various women) ~ tutor,civil servant, composer, music teacher, botanist, linguist, novelist, memoirist, and philosopher.
