Wollstonecraft ( wrote the book in part as a reaction to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolution, published in late 1790 Before this date there had been books that argued for the reform of female education, often for moral reasons or to better befit women for their role as companions for men

Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and a passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women She called for the betterment of women’s status through such political change as the radical reform of national educational systems Such change, she concluded, would benefit all society4 วันที่ผ่านมา

following year Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), the seminal English-language feminist work, was published in England Challenging the notion that women exist only to please men, she proposed that women and men be given equal opportunities in education, work, and politics4 วันที่ผ่านมา

Wollstonecraft’s leading ambition for women was that they should attain virtue, and it was to this end that she sought their liberation

Rousseau’s

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Age of Enlightenment

The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith This was a sharp turn away from the prevailing idea that people needed to rely on scripture or church authorities for knowledge

The Enlightenment – the great ‘Age of Reason’ – is defined as the period of rigorous scientific, political and philosophical discourse that characterised European society during the ‘long’ 18th century: from the late 17th century to the ending of the Napoleonic Wars in 181

Around the age of seven, give or take a year, children enter a developmental phase known as the age of reason It’s the time when a child starts to truly grasp the difference between right and wrong, and begins to realize that other people have their own feelings that might not match his or her