The Theory of Rights in Mary Wollstonecraft

Considering the whole corpus of Mary Wollstonecraft’s writings, this paper focuses on her view of rights, seen as moral claims and rhetoric tools. Firstly, it is argued that, in the author’s perspective, their technical and judicial dimension is peripheral, where “rights” are human features within a...

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Main Author: Serena Vantin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2019-05-01
Series:Governare la paura
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Online Access:https://governarelapaura.unibo.it/article/view/9418