Comparing Wollstonecraft's Virtue And The Power Of Reason

The power of reason allows every human being to be a world unto itself in which they can use their individual observations and form general rules and ideas that relate to society and events happening around them. Women were rarely given the opportunity to exercise their power of reason. Wollstonecraft was enraged by Rousseau’s views on women, and refused to accept that women were less capable of reason than men, or that vanity, weakness, and frivolity were the natural attributes of her sex. Moreover, she added that this kind of femininity is a social construct rather than being women’s true ability, because men’s and women’s common humanity is based on their shared and God-given possession of reason. Thus, virtue and the power of reason must