PHI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mary Wollstonecraft
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Discussion of a vindication of the rights of women (excerpts) by mary wollstonecraft. Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean relative to us, this being determined by reason and in a way in which a man of practical wisdom would determine it. Enlightenment thought: her thinking is much closer to aristotle than to kant. I have had in view throughout that to improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. Only employed about the little incidents of the day, they necessarily grow up cunning. My very soul has often sickened at observing the sly tricks practised by women to gain some foolish thing on which their silly hearts were set. If things were different and there was more equality in education, it would allow women to be more virtuous: cunning and sly refer to women"s inability to be virtuous due to the inequality in education.
