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Please Review the Document Titled “On The Admission Of Women To The Rights Of Citizenship. BY THE MARQUIS DE CONDORCET.”
1. a) What does Condorcet argue as being the reason for the differences in performance by men and women? (Make sure to provide a quote from the article b) How is this difference remedied?
2. Condorcet argues that the differences between men and women in and of themselves do not justify the denial of rights to women. Why is this? -Provide a quote from the article
3. Here is a quote from another work by Condorcet.
“After long periods of error, after being led astray by fake or incomplete theories, publicists have at last discovered the true rights of man and how they can all be deduced from the single truth, that man is a sentient being, capable of reasoning and of acquiring moral ideas. . . .” Condorcet, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (1795)
How do you feel about this statement? Do you agree that all human rights can be drawn from the idea that “man is a sentient being, capable of reasoning and of acquiring moral ideas. . . ” or do we draw our rights from something else?
4. Consider the following quote…
“Either no individual in mankind has true rights, or all have the same ones; and whoever votes against the right of another, whatever be his religion, his color, or his sex, has from that moment abjured his own rights.” – Condorcet, “On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship,” July 1790
How do you feel about this statement? Is it necessary for all people to have the same rights in order for Human Rights to be a valid idea? Is this the source of equality (everyone has the same rights)? Make sure to explain WHY you feel this statement is valid or invalid.
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