Mary Wollstonecraft polemic with the views of Jean J. Rousseau
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Polemika Mary Wollstonecraft z poglądami Jeana J. Rousseau na temat wychowania i edukacji kobiet
Mary Wollstonecraft polemic with the views of Jean J. Rousseau on the upbringing and education of women

Author(s): Agnieszka Szczap
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Education, Sociology, Family and social welfare
Published by: Zakład Historii Edukacji w Instytucie Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: upbringing; woman; man; education; equality; reason; Enlightenment; civil rights

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the views of Mary Wollstonecraft on the education of women.Her views are the essence of Enlightenment thought. She believedin the power of humanreason and the legitimacy of the slogan of the French Revolution. Proposed socialreforms based on the ideas of freedom and equality, demanded the granting to womentheir civil and political rights. Sources of the programme are the theoretical assumptions and personal experiences of the author. The philosophical foundations of liberalism were inspired by John Locke and the polemic of views on education advocated byJean J. Rousseau. Rousseau believed that the main task of women is pleasing men,therefore, what should be developed in them are the qualities and habits that are used toachieve this. This postulates that girls and boys were educated in a different way. Wollstonecraft referring to the universality of reason insisted on an egalitarian model of education.

  • Issue Year: XII/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 39-50
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English, Polish