History of Ideas: Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics
TALKING POLITICS
The Unmarried Philosophy of Hobbes
There is a list of male philosophers who were unmarried and it runs through Hobbes. Wollstonecraft says it's a terrible argument because she does not think you can lead a fully rational, but also fully human life without trying to secure deep relationships. The other difference in terms of what she thought was that her defense of reason and rationality in politics was actually nothing like Hobbes's.
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