I love most of these! I do feel that men in the old times have taken scriptures and twisted them for personal benefit and to lose their own accountability. Scriptures actually give a lot of strict guidelines for men as well. Men who try to take away women's rights are denying their own wrong doings. They said that women are more proned to sin than men and that's not even in scripture. So, the religious oppression in this particular case is actually men who wanted to be in control over the woman, so he took scriptures that appealed to him instead of taking it as a whole.
hi. Just letting you know that the title is "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman". I know it is confusing because she uses "Men" in " A Vindication of the Rights of Men" but I just wanted to clarify for anyone who is using this for school purposes so that they can avoid misspelling the title. Also, if anyone knows why she chose to put "Woman" instead of "Women" please feel free to enlighten me. I would argue that she does this to speak individually to each and every woman reading it rather than speaking to the collective women body as a whole. Putting Woman is more individualistic and advocates for the woman who is reading the vindication herself to read it as if Mary is speaking directly to her.
My philo prof suggested that she put "woman" as a way to express her awareness of a shared experience. Wollstonecraft acknowledges that "woman" is a special category because of a shared opression.
"In the same strain have I heard men argue against instructing the poor for many are the forms that aristocracy assumes. "Teach them to read and write," say they, "and you take them out of the station assigned them by nature." [A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797, 4: Observations on the State of Degradation...]
They become Victims of abuse They become domestic tyrants They become slothful They become depressed According to Mary Wollstonecraft, in her "A Vindication on the Rights of Woman" what happens to women who were home makers that did not have an opportunity to acquire formal education?
God Himself loosed the serpent on Adam & Eve, and everything depended on its not betraying Him. This venomous creature has stayed loyal to God even to this day. [The Human Province, Elias Canetti, 1973, English Edition, 1978, Sec. "1942“]
God Himself loosed the serpent on Adam & Eve, and everything depended on its not betraying Him. This venomous creature has stayed loyal to God even to this day. [The Human Province, Elias Canetti, 1973, English Edition, 1978, Sec. "1942“]
"Arguments of this cast are an insult to common sense, and savour of passion. The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is to be hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger, and though conviction may not silence many boisterous disputants, yet, when any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation." [A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797, 2: The Prevailing Opinion...] "Classical (Pavlovian) conditioning can be done with earthworms, and operant (Skinnerian) conditioning can be conducted on rats and pigeons. But there is a third level of learning that pretty much only primates and humans are capable of, and that is what is called social learning. This third level of learning, in its most powerful form, revolves primarily around the observation and imitation of a role model. Unlike operant conditioning, in social learning it is not essential that the learner be directly reinforced in order for learning to take place. What is important in social learning is to understand the characteristics that can lead to the selection of a specific individual as a role model. The processes that make someone a desirable role model include: • Vicarious reinforcement. You see the role model being reinforced in a manner that you can experience vicariously. • Similarity to the learner. You perceive that the role model has a key trait that makes him/her similar to you. • Social power. The role model has the power to reward (but does not necessarily do so). • Status envy. You envy the role model's receipt of rewards from others." [On Killing, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, 2009, Chapter 4] “Moral distance processes tend to provide a foundation upon which other killing-enabling processes can be built. In general they are less likely to produce atrocities than cultural distance processes, and they are more in keeping with the kind of "rules" (deterring aggression and upholding individual human dignity) that organizations such as the United Nations have attempted to uphold. But as with cultural distance, there is a danger associated with moral distance. That danger is, of course, that every nation seems to think that God is on its side.” [On Killing, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, 2009] "Scilicet ut salva sit mythologica Judaica, Noster misere torquetur." "Our [friends, women & girls] are tortured miserably & only for the purpose of saving Jewish mythology." [Coranto: Journal of the Friends of the Libraries, 1966, Vol. IV, No. I, The Folio Augustini of Schopenhauer, Martin Woods]
