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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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    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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    In The Universal Declaration of Human Rights‚ article 30 states that we are free from state and personal interference from all our rights and freedoms given. The majority of states in this world all have these 30 rights. With these rights and freedoms‚ everybody gets to live their lives freely. But somehow‚ there are still a couple of states that don’t have these 30 rights and freedoms. This declaration is basically nonexistent. There are still places where slavery is enabled. Life may seem so amazing

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    Freedom is a very broad term and it is subject to many different interpretations‚ such as the example given by Jean-Jacques Rousseau on his book The Social Construct. He stated that “Man is born free‚ and everywhere he is in chains”‚ implying that no individual is truly free. He believes that people have the right to be free but are not able to be for they are enslaved to the societies that they belong in. Though this may sound a bit negative‚ Rosseau talks about when it is proper to do such a

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    Rousseau Analysis

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    The Social Contract In ancient times all men lived in a state of nature until hardships and the necessity to form a civil society between one another became eminent. Jean Jacques Rousseau’s “The Social Contract‚” analyses the steps and reasoning behind this transition. In Rousseau’s work he focuses on several key terms in order to define this transition clearly‚ they include: state of nature‚ social contract‚ civil society‚ general will‚ and the sovereign. It would be impossible to define the

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    on its citizen.’’ The government most definitely should not have the right to spy on its citizens. Even if it was to supposedly secure our country’s freedom‚ it is doing nothing but taking away freedoms from its own people. It would be conflicting for our country to say that they are trying to secure our freedoms by spying on the citizens. Recent classified documents leaked by Edward Snowden (Former CIA and NSA employee) proved that the government has indeed been spying on its citizens. If the

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    if most of the human beings would work just according to the id this could have severe repercussions. For example a man desires extra land to harvest crops‚ as it would give him more food. The only way to obtain this land would be to take over his neighbour’s land‚ if this man complied according to his id‚ he would take over the land immediately. However this move could cause the man to maybe loose his own land‚ as the neighbour would not take kindly to this trespass and retaliate. Thus the ego operates

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    The Declaration is rooted in natural law. Natural rights were part of natural law that in turn was part of God’s law. John Locke summarized God given rights as‚ “life liberty and property.”X In the Declaration‚ Thomas Jefferson would later extend Locke’s paraphrasing to “Life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness.” The Declaration states in the course of human events when it becomes necessary to dissolve political bands and assume “the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and

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    revolve around a central notion of a ‘social contract’ in which society is formed through a theoretical agreement between a group of people about their moral and political obligations. This concept has been used by theorists such as Mill and Rousseau‚ to explain why the law is justified in its right to constrain the behaviour of individuals and organisations in society. Later in the twentieth century‚ John Rawls took a novel stance on the concept of the social contract‚ in which principles of justice

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    came to being published and especially when it came to the subject of woman’s rights. Most women did not have the ability to become authors due to the lack of formal education given to the general populace and limited even further by the topics which women who could afford to be educated were taught. If women were published they wrote about specific topics that they knew well‚ but that usually had no political or social agenda. Men were publishing quite often and they had a much larger pool of topics

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