Mary Wollstonecraft

Lena Halldenius

doi:10.4324/9781315450001-49

Mary Wollstonecraft

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In this chapter, it is argued that Mary Wollstonecraft’s (1759–1797) writings on morality and politics are usefully analyzed as comprehensive critique of hierarchy and inequality, as detrimental to freedom and virtue. Focus is placed on Wollstonecraft’s approach to doing philosophy, or her method. She regarded inequalities as moral deviations from proper standards of rightness but also as contingent deviations from the path toward progress. It is incumbent upon the philosopher to see through the cheat of privilege and argue for the political destruction of inequality, for the sake of justice and moral development.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy
Editors	Karen Detlefsen, Lisa Shapiro
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Chapter	42
Pages	571-583
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315449999
ISBN (Print)	9781138212756
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315450001-49
Publication status	Published - 2023 Jun 19

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Name	Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

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Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

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Mary Wollstonecraft
feminism
feminist philosophy
feminist history of philosophy

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Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Republicanism
Halldenius, L. (PI)
2009/01/01 → 2018/12/31
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