Political readings

Comparing Price and Burke

Price Burke
reason
society
rationality
domination
despotism
rights
inequality
corruption
rights of men
revolution
liberty
inheritance
nature
family
permanence
instinct vs. reason
freedom
reverence
conservatism
gentlemen
religion
learning

Williams

Letter 2:

sublimity
emotions
human kind

Letter 9

republican
the heart
liberty

Letter 10

aristocracy
revolution
barbarity

Letter 26

crimes
liberty
sympathy

Wollstonecraft

Ch. 2. The prevailing opinion of a sexual character discussed (ignore page numbers)

Women taught softness and cunning (19); kept as if children, to be guided by man (20); on education for women as degrading them (21-20); neglect of order for bodily skills (23); like military officers, they acquire manners rather than morals (24); against Rousseau's Sophy: women limited to grace and obedience (25); whereas women have same duty as men to realize their virtue (26); women trained to allure will soon lose interest of their husbands (27); advice of Gregory rejected (28); sensual occupations of women unfit them for marriage (29); love cannot be expected to last in marriage (30), cultivation of reason and understanding required (31-2); gentleness disgusting when merely submission (33); the "fair defects" of women (34); estimate powers of woman when her faculties given room to develop (35-6); tyrants and slaves through history, not only in the subjection of woman (37).


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