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    Reason should cultivate and govern instincts implanted in us to render the path of duty pleasant

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    • 1.If instincts are not governed by reason, they will run wild and strengthen the passions of vanity and self-love
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    • 2.Vanity and self-love are passions that endeavor to obtain dominion over individuals
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    • 1.Aristotle holds that virtuous character requires habituation that makes right action pleasurable prior to and independent of rational deliberation.
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    • 2.If instincts must already be cultivated before reason can govern them effectively, reason presupposes well-ordered instinct rather than producing it.
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    • 3.The claim therefore inverts the actual developmental relationship between instinct and reason in moral formation.
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    • 1.Hume argues that reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions, making reason instrumentally subordinate to instinct rather than its governor.
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    • 2.If reason lacks motivational force independent of passion, it cannot cultivate instincts but can only redirect passions already in motion.
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    Apart from Mary, a Fiction and The Cave of Fancy Wollstonecraft’s early writings were of a pedagogical nature (Jones 2020). These reveal the profound influence John Locke had on Wollstonecraft’s thought, and several of the arguments of his Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) are echoed in Wollstonecraft’s conception of morality and the best manner to inculcate it in individuals at the earliest possible age. The opening paragraph of her Thoughts on the Education of Daughters speaks of the d
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