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The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered
Wollstonecraft lays her first principles: reason distinguishes humans from brutes, virtue is the exercise of that reason, and rights and duties flow from it equally — the premise the rest of the book applies to women.
Reason as humanity's distinguishing facultyVirtue defined as the exercise of reasonRights and duties as inseparableHereditary rank and property as corruptions of reason