The Age of Reason is first and foremost an age of public reasoning. Equipped with a fresh and indeed unprecedented consciousness of feasibility and responsibility, educated citizens start to participate actively – and in many cases by taking personal risks – in discourses on political, religious and philosophical issues. In this article, I will highlight two core issues of the late eighteenth century – the dispute about the legitimacy of the French Revolution as well as its underlying philosophical conceptions and the rising human rights idea – and thereby revisit the interventions of three women who, though rediscovered in various fields of research, still have to gain their due recognition as pre-eminent political philosophers of their time.

中文翻译：

---

凯瑟琳·麦考利、玛丽·沃斯通克拉夫特和安娜·莱蒂西亚·巴鲍德的政治哲学中的革命和人权思想

理性时代首先是一个公共推理时代。受过教育的公民对可行性和责任心怀着一种全新的、甚至前所未有的意识，开始积极参与——在许多情况下，通过承担个人风险——参与政治、宗教和哲学问题的讨论。在这篇文章中，我将强调 18 世纪后期的两个核心问题——关于法国大革命合法性及其潜在哲学观念和不断上升的人权观念的争论——从而重新审视三位女性的干预，她们虽然在各个研究领域重新发现，仍然必须获得他们作为当时杰出政治哲学家的应有认可。