A Vindication of the Rights of Men (Great Books in Philosophy)

ISBN: 9781573921060

出版社: Prometheus Books

出版年: 1996-11

页数: 97

定价: USD 11.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), author and pioneering feminist, answers Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" in this, her first stirring political pamphlet. In "A Vindication of the Rights of Men" (1790), Wollstonecraft refutes Burke's assertions that human liberties are an "entailed inheritance," that the alliance between church and state is necessary for civil order, and that civil authority should be restricted to men "of permanent property." Rather, liberties are rights which all human beings "inherit at their birth, as rational creatures".