Early modern · 1759–1797
Who influenced Mary Wollstonecraft?
Influences and legacy
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: reason has no sex.
Mary Wollstonecraft was influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and went on to influence John Stuart Mill. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher, best known for her case for women's rights and regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers. In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men but only seem so for lack of education, and that both should be treated as rational beings in a social order founded on reason.
In a short career she also wrote novels, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution and a children's book. She married the philosopher William Godwin and died at 38, eleven days after giving birth to Mary Shelley, the future author of Frankenstein. Godwin's memoir of her unconventional life damaged her reputation for nearly a century, until the feminist movement restored it.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Mary Wollstonecraft?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1778
Who did Mary Wollstonecraft influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Mary Wollstonecraft.
- John Stuart Mill 1806–1873
The line of teachers behind Mary Wollstonecraft
The longest documented line of influence ending at Mary Wollstonecraft runs 17 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Mary Wollstonecraft
Indirect influences
- Through Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke
The second generation
- Through John Stuart Mill: Henry Sidgwick, Bertrand Russell, John Rawls
Contemporaries of Mary Wollstonecraft
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Mary Wollstonecraft, with no direct line between them.
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762–1814
- Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767–1835
- Friedrich Schleiermacher 1768–1834
- Georg W. F. Hegel 1770–1831
- Jeremy Bentham 1748–1832
- Friedrich Schlegel 1772–1829
- Johann Gottfried Herder 1744–1803
- F. W. J. Schelling 1775–1854
Mary Wollstonecraft by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 61
- Thinkers downstream
- 24
- Wikipedia languages
- 104 — #16 of 36 among early modern philosophers
- Card rarity
- Legendary
Questions about Mary Wollstonecraft
- Who influenced Mary Wollstonecraft?
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- Who did Mary Wollstonecraft influence?
- John Stuart Mill.
- When did Mary Wollstonecraft live?
- 1759–1797. The map files Mary Wollstonecraft under the early modern period.
- How rare is the Mary Wollstonecraft card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Mary Wollstonecraft in 104 languages, which makes it a Legendary card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
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- Adam Smith 1723–1790
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1778
- Niccolò Machiavelli 1469–1527
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716
- John Locke 1632–1704