Qualia

Even with their contemporary impact, the Enlightenment-era Social Contract theorists were not without their detractors—two prominent critics being Mary Wollstonecraft and Karl Marx. Because each takes issue with the Enlightenment, one can theorize their responses to the assertion that "the Enlightenment ideals (EI) (of freedom and equality, firmly grounded in notions of reason and progress) are riddled with hypocrisy and should therefore be abandoned." I will argue that while both Wollstonecraft…