SFII-UF 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mary Wollstonecraft, French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre
18 Apr 2016
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First person to really advocate for women"s liberaion. Makes a step towards liberaing women in his utopia. Refuted aristotle"s idea of women as irraional and emoional, demanding educaion for women. Wrote a defense of the great women of history whom men have writen about in a negaive, nasty way. Writen during the renaissance, around the ime of thomas more. One of the french poliical philosophers who was impressed by the women who took part in the. French revoluion and risked their lives was condorcet o o o o. French revoluionary leader who was thinking about giving women the right to vote and sit in parliament, because he was reacing to revoluionary french women who had spoken out for women"s rights. He never got a chance to write the consituion he wanted to write, because robespierre and the reign of terror took over. Condorcet led, because he thought he"d be killed too.
