Question

question 9 (mandatory) (1 point)
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in her vindication of the rights of woman, mary wollstonecraft argued that
a) republicanism was an ill - conceived idea dedicated to the violent disruption of society.
b) women were deserving of the protection of men since they were the weaker sex.
c) virtue ought to mean different things to men and women.
d) all men and women share a common capacity for reason and self - government.
e) there was no such thing as a natural division of labor in any human society.
question 10 (mandatory) (1 point)

Explanation:

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a foundational text in feminist philosophy. In it, she posits that men and women share the capacity for reason. She argues against the idea that women are inherently inferior and unable to engage in rational thought and self - governance. This was a radical departure from the prevailing views of her time, which often saw women as the "weaker sex" in need of male protection and with different (and often lesser) moral and intellectual standards.

• Option a: Wollstonecraft was not against republicanism in this way. Her focus was on women's rights within a rational framework, not on disrupting society but on reforming it to include women.
• Option b: This is the opposite of her view. She rejected the idea that women were the weaker sex in need of male protection in a subservient way.
• Option c: She actually argued for a common standard of virtue based on reason for both men and women.
• Option e: While she did challenge gender - based divisions of labor (to some extent, as her focus was more on intellectual and political rights), the concept of a "natural division of labor" in human society was not the central tenet of her argument in this work. Her main focus was on the capacity for reason in men and women.

Answer:

d) all men and women share a common capacity for reason and self - government.