How Did Mary Walstonecraft Contribute To The Enlightenment

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The Enlightenment was a period of time in the 17th and 18th centuries when intellectuals challenged the status quo. In the existing state of society before the enlightenment, people never questioned the church and the King's right to rule under god, especially since science was very underdeveloped. The enlightenment sparked a change in society once people realized the church was wrong in saying that the earth was the center of the universe rather than the sun. Mary Wollstonecraft challenged this status quo by advocating for her beliefs in equal rights for women in the patriarchal and absolutist society she lived in. I believe that Mary was the most inclusive in her beliefs of all the enlightenment thinkers, and that hers will actually benefit society.
Mary Wollstonecraft's main beliefs included the belief that human nature can be perfected if education is improved, and that oppression ended once this was done. She also believed that all people, including women, are equal and has the right to decide their fate, and that inequality is the result of unjust rule of a monarch. The reason Mary believed in such radical ideas, is because of her experiences in life as a woman, in a society that puts women down, basically having to give everything to their husband. Her as a mother out of …show more content…

He believed that an absolute monarch was needed to manage a world full of naturally evil and selfish humans. Although he believed in an absolute monarch, he did not believe in divine right. Unlike Mary who believed in the that education can change the unfortunate nature and life of a human, Hobbes believed that " the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short". This quote shows that Hobbes doesn't believe that life very significant , nor that it can be improved, which is why he must believe that humans should only controlled by a

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