![]() Since families are formed by individuals, how is it possible that these thinkers dismissed the voice of one half of the population - women? Even though Jean-Jacques Rousseau puts so much emphasis on the individual’s necessity for freedom in order to prepare his readers for a future democratic state, his ideas of self-government did not expand to include women. IntroductionĪlthough political philosophers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke and Thomas Hobbes thought it important that all individuals be free to govern themselves, they often based their theories of representative democracy on the nuclear family as the smallest unit in society. “Women do wrong to complain of the inequality of man-made laws this inequality is not of man’s making, or at any rate it is not the result of mere prejudice, but of reason.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law there remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.” John Stuart Mill 1. Conclusion: Mill and Rousseau in Critical Perspective Bibliography ![]() 2.1 Sophie's “Education” as a Natural Womanģ.2 Mill and Rousseau on Childhood Educationģ.3 Natural Differences versus violent RepressionĤ. ![]()
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