ABSTRACT
In this chapter, it is argued that Mary Wollstonecraft’s (1759–1797) writings on morality and politics are usefully analyzed as comprehensive critique of hierarchy and inequality, as detrimental to freedom and virtue. Focus is placed on Wollstonecraft’s approach to doing philosophy, or her method. She regarded inequalities as moral deviations from proper standards of rightness but also as contingent deviations from the path toward progress. It is incumbent upon the philosopher to see through the cheat of privilege and argue for the political destruction of inequality, for the sake of justice and moral development.
