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Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

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The Limits of Reason in Politics

Hobbs was looking for protection, and it wasn't clear to him that having another family dividing his loyalty was the way to find protection. Wolstonecraft did seek safety. But her defence of reason and rationality in politics was actually nothing like hobbs's. It doesn't work on the same principles, and it doesn't have the same limitations. One way to characterize what hobbs was doing was trying to use reason to identify the limits of reason.

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