Revolutionary potential

• Locke's ideas

  • Needed arguing/defending
  • Said the state should be driven by representatives not masters this was at the Time of absolute monarchical power and the divine right of kings
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  Associated with Glorious Revolution and American Revolution
• The 18th century did not firmly accept that humanity had reason and logic
• Wollstonecraft

  • Argued that the treatment of women was an affront to reason and individual liberty
  • Women were not developing individual potential
  • Considered to be emotional creatures, marriage, motherhood, little else
• Wollstonecraft's view

  Men and women needed formal education to release powers of reason