Abstract
Abstract
Disputes about rights, virtues, common goods, and the relation of each to justice are at the heart of the Revolution debates and movements for justice today. Worries about modern rights and virtues are many and various. Acutely aware of these, Wollstonecraft nonetheless vindicates women’s rights as human rights for the cause of virtue and deems each integral to justice. She uses theological and secular vernaculars of her time to do so, wedding talk of juristic rights with republican notions of freedom as nondomination. Slavery is paradigmatic of domination and analogous to other eighteenth-century forms of domination and exploitation among the landless, destitute, imprisoned, and women. For Wollstonecraft, neither rights nor virtues are conceptually or ontologically prior to the other. Subjective rights, right action, and the virtues of justice that set relations right are each part and parcel of justice. Far from rendering common goods obsolete, the relations set right by virtues and rights simply are common goods.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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