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    John Locke And Rousseau

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    integral to understanding the political theories of both John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau. Both Locke and Rousseau begin their social contract theories in the state of nature. The state of nature‚ as explained by Locke‚ is “a state of perfect freedom” wherein people are at liberty to “order their actions‚ and dispose of their possessions and persons‚ as they think fit‚ within the bounds of the law of nature” and are not dependent on one another. Locke states that people have the natural right to life

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    state. Among those thinkers were the philosophers Thomas Hobbes‚ John Locke‚ and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who all differ in the manner in which they view the ideal form of the state. Hobbes believed the power of the monarch should be absolute in order to maintain peace in the state‚ whereas Locke believed that government existed only to protect its people and to allow them to have right to life‚ liberty‚ and property‚ however‚ Rousseau believed in an individual freedom and direct democracy. This paper

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    set up to protect their people’s rights and liberty and make sure that everyone is equal. However‚ there are different approaches as to how a society should be set up to protect those rights and ensure equality throughout the society. John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau both offer different approaches to how a government should be assembled. Locke’s central belief‚ in Second Treatise of Government‚ is that society is set up to protect an individual’s private property right. People enter into a social

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    Same-Gender Education Locke vs. Rousseau Kazsandra Génier 140892740 November 24‚ 2014 Word Count: 1711 Throughout history‚ philosophers have continued to contribute to the world of modernity. Theorists such as John Locke and Jean-Jacque Rousseau offer ideas that are both similar and contradicting. Locke argued the importance of equal education for men and women with a strict curriculum while Rousseau believed in a lenient curriculum focusing on

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    Hobbes vs. Locke vs. Rousseau/ State of Nature/ Allam/ 2013 “I am at the point of believing‚ that my labor will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato. For Plato‚ also is of the opinion that it is impossible for the disorders of the state ever to be taken away until sovereigns be philosophers . . . I recover some hope that one time or other this writing of mine may fall into the hands of a sovereign who will consider it for himself‚ for it is short‚ and I think clear.” -The Monster of

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    John Locke John Locke set a basis that all people are “born with natural rights of life‚ liberty‚ and property.” He states that the only reason a state is established is to protect those rights. Locke saw people as basically good and humane; completely different than Thomas Hobbes view as man being “brutish and selfish.” He believed that the only way a law should be passed is if it was “designed for no other end ultimately‚ but…” for the good of the people under it. Another idea was that taxes

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    A person cannot talk about John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau first defining what each contract theorist means when he talks about the state of nature. For Locke‚ his state of nature involves “ungoverned humans pursuing their individual interests with respect for one another’s rights and even cooperate with one another with their interests overlap” (Portis‚ p. 103). These ungoverned humans are rational‚ resources are unconditional‚ and there is no threat from any external source. In Rousseau’s

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    themselves. With a “caring” and “fair” ruler they could be saved from the burden of their own judgement. In contrast‚ Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke‚ Baron De Montesquieu‚ Mary Wollstonecraft‚ and Jean-Jacques Rousseau thought that people were born pure and only were bad from the “corruption of society”‚ thus they should have a say in

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    • According to Rousseau‚ the original condition of mankind was a peaceful and quixotic time in which people lived solitary‚ uncomplicated lives. This differs from Locke’s concept of the state of nature in that‚ his natural condition of mankind was a state liberty in which one was able to conduct one’s life as they saw fit. Like Rousseau’s‚ it was a time of peace between the people‚ but Locke’s was not necessarily a solitary life. • The state of nature for Locke was a state wherein there were no

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    The enlightenment idea of John Locke and Rousseau differ from Thomas Hobbes is that they all see enlightenment in a different part of light‚ but yet they all agree on enlighten as learning knowledge‚ and wisdom. The European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition “John Locke and Rousseau believe in “natural rights”‚ while Hobbes believes that people are naturally wicked and cannot be trusted. To govern

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