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In France in the early 1790s, the French Revolution, which sought to establish universal individual rights in French society, inspired several arguments for women's rights. ███ ████ ██████████ ███████████ ██ ███████ ██ █████████ ███ ██████ ██ ███████ ████ ██████ ██████████ ██ ███ ███████████ ███ ██████████ ██████████ ███████ ████ ██████████ █████████ ███████ ███████ ██ ██████ ██ ███████████ ███ ████████ ██ ███████ ███████ ███

Intro to two arguments ·

Two opposing arguments both in favor of women’s rights

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Condorcet / Gouges · Passive approach / active approach

Condorcet believes that women’s rights will be delivered as a consequence of universal equal rights. Gouges believes that political inequality is the basis of all injustice that women experience and direct political action is required.

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Condorcet’s premise · Universal rights

Women’s rights is just a specific instance of universal rights and hence will be remedied along with all other forms of discrimination.

Condorcet’s conclusion · No political action required

Inequality is intellectually incoherent so political equality for women will naturally soon arrive.

Gouges’ argument · Women should be politically active

In contrast to Condorcet’s passive argument.

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Gouges’ argument · Skeptical that universal rights will automatically reach women

For women, political inequality is the source of all other inequalities and activism is required.

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Gouges’ argument · Specific inequalities that stem from political inequality

E.g., unequal marriage, property, and employment rights

Passage Style

Critique or debate

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Question Type

Implied

Other’s perspective

The question stem asks us to jump inside Gouges' mind and answer, from her perspective, why she would probably not have argued for first attaining equality in marriage. We can anticipate a low-res version of the answer: it's because she thinks that political inequalities is the source of all other forms of inequality, including the one in marraige. That's why she wants to focus on political (as opposed to marriage) inequality first.

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What (A) claims is probably true. But it's not why Gouges chose to not focus on marriage first. There's no support for this.

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What (B) claims is probably true. But it's not why Gouges chose to not focus on marriage first. There's no support for this.

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What (C) claims is probably true. But it's not why Gouges chose to not focus on marriage first. There's no support for this.

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Yes, it is because political equality is a prerequisite to other forms of equality. Supported here, here, and here.

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This is Condorcet's position and it's not why she chose to not focus on marriage first.

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