Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #70: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 –1797) Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 –1797) was a British writer and philosopher. She is best known for her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she promotes the idea that women are rational beings, just as men, and consequently deserve to have their rights recognized and protected. She believed that education is essential to helping women develop their minds, capabilities, independence and self-respect. Contrary to popular belief, she was not a feminist, but an individualist. In other words, she was not primarily pro-woman, but pro-individual. She properly recognized that justice requires that each person, man or woman, be judged by his or her own character and individual merits, as opposed to being prejudged, positively or negatively, on the basis of an unchosen group to which they belong. Go to #71: Phillipe Pinel Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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