Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794), was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist whose ideas embodied the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment ( 1620-1781, where philosophers defended reason would enable human beings to achieve objective truth about the whole of reality). Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 – 1797) was a British intellectual, writer, philosopher, and early feminist. They both have in common the defense of human rights. That all men and women are born equal under the laws of natural rights, an idea not so common in their historic period.