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    Kant and Rousseau

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    The Influence of Kant and Rousseau on the Enlightenment The eighteenth century was a time of rapid change and development in the way people viewed humans and their interaction with others in society. Many countries experience revolution and monarchies were overthrow. People began to question the values that were ingrained in society and governments that ruled them. Two of the biggest philosophers of that time were Immanuel Kant and Jean-Jacques Rousseau‚ who both ignite the overthrow of tradition

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    Conception Of Justice

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    has a political conception of justice that comes from “fundamental intuitive ideas regarded as latent in the public political culture.” This political conception of justice should have the hope of “gaining the support of an overlapping consensus‚” which is “a consensus in which it is affirmed by the opposing religious‚ philosophical‚ and moral doctrines likely to thrive over generations in a more or less just constitutional democracy.” The overlapping consensus on the conception of justice is “moral

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    Rousseau and Hobbes

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    Hobbes and Rousseau and how these portrayals are reflected in their political theories. Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were philosophers of the mid 17th and mid 18th centuries respectively and proposed two political theories - in “Leviathan” (Hobbes‚ 1651)‚ “The Second Discourse” (Rousseau‚ 1755) and the “Social Contract” (Rousseau‚ 1762) - that were very different but that once analysed‚ could be argued to have common characteristics and goals. Both Hobbes and Rousseau based their

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    Rousseau And Politics

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    Does Schmitt or does Rousseau describe the current state of American politics most accurately? Carl Schmitt‚ a German political theorist and Jean Jacques Rousseau‚ a French political philosopher‚ both give their views on democracy and its inner workings. Schmitt show great disdain for democracy. He believes it is corrupt and “seems fated [then] to destroy itself…” Rousseau clearly believes in democracy; where the citizens have duties to the nation and enter into a social contract with the sovereign

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    Liberal

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    something different to different people. A term that I find interesting is the word liberal ‚ with is root word being Liber which means free or “free one“. the meaning of the word liberal has also changed over time. What the word liberal means today doesn’t mean what it use to back In he 18th and 19th centuries. Back then the word liberal referred someone who believed in individual freedom in both personal and fiscal matters. It was used to described people who were very

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    When people hear and talk about freedom and equality‚ they think about The United States of America. This is the first thing that comes up into their mind because this is a couple of things that America value. Freedom and equality is what America conducts in now‚ but throughout the 1900’s this was not the case. All genders back then were not all equal‚ in fact‚ women back then had the littlest of freedom and equality. Sometimes the women would make a stand for their gender‚ and sometimes the women

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    Rousseau Motherhood

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    qualities like education or physical strength (Rousseau‚ 262). Women are ill taught by men to believe these social stigmas assigned to them‚ which are obedience‚ chastity to the family‚ and subservience to men‚ their family‚ and society. This view of motherhood is thought to benefit the men‚ where as women will be their pleasing servants as wives‚ their children’s tutor after motherhood‚ and their chaste civil companion. But to this view‚ which Rousseau wrote a chauvinistic book about‚ Wollstonecraft

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    Rousseau and individualism

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    force in the way each of us think in our daily lives. During the time of Rousseau these ideas we just taking off‚ with thinkers like Hobbes and Locke were carrying the idea forward. However‚ what Rousseau provided in his works‚ in particular piece The Social Contract challenged those notions of individualism‚ highlighting holes in reasoning as well as exposing the inherent flaws that lie in a hyper-individualist society. Rousseau sought to counter previous notions of not only primitive man‚ but of the

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    Rousseau as Totalitarian?

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    ROUSSEAU AS TOTALITARIAN? Rousseau‚ known as “Father of Modern Democratic Theory”‚ was being accused by other people as a “Father of Totalitarianism”. This is one of the contentious issues which attack Rousseau’s social contract; he is seen to be advocating totalitarian solution rather democratic. Others may have only misunderstood the concept of totalitarianism but I tell you there is no clear evidence showing he is in favor of totalitarian. Why‚ then‚ some considered Rousseau as a totalitarian

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    Rousseau Analysis

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    sovereign. It would be impossible to define the latter terms without first analyzing Rousseau’s definition of state of nature. This has to do with the fact that none of the terms have relevance without the existence of the state of nature. According to Rousseau‚ the state of nature is when there is no outside force influencing an individual’s decisions. It is here that a person can truly be called an individual. A good example of this definition is when a caveman lives alone and does what he pleases‚ when

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