Henri Rousseau

Both Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Stuart Mill have ideas about the concept of freedom that differ greatly from both each other and their contemporaries. By comparing their works, ‘The Social Contract’ and ‘On Liberty’ respectively, these differences can be drawn out to paint a clear picture of what these philosophers advocated for society. Rousseau distinguished between two types of freedom, natural liberty and the liberty that follows after natural liberty is given up. Natural liberty leads on

Gabit Gabdullin Age of Enlightenment: intellectuals that changed the Europe’s way of thinking. Intro The Age of Enlightenment is one of the turning points in the human history, which affected the economy, politics and social order throughout the world. Period of Enlightenment is vividly bounded in the late XVII century up to the end of XVIII century. Main purpose of the Enlightenment time’s intellectuals was to affect and transform the society in which they lived, by challenging traditions by the

The Virginia Declaration of Rights establishes the fundamental principles of free government in natural rights. Rather than demanding mere equality with other British subjects, it reasons from universal natural rights. George Mason (later an anti-Federalist) drafted the Declaration, and on June 12, 1776, three weeks before the Declaration of Independence, a state convention approved it. It remains part of the current Virginia Constitution. As in Alexander Hamilton’s “Farmer Refuted” and John Adams’s

opinion and vote in a direct democracy following the general will (Rousseau) and the freedom of speech (Voltaire), they fail to effectively govern themselves. In turn, the boys face a loss of civilization which eventually leads to death. The boys fail to govern themselves and cause the outcome of a loss of civilization leading to deaths of a few boys for a sole reason that they do not adopt the key governing component proclaimed by Rousseau in which he states that governments must have a direct democracy

The concept of connection is derived from the relationship that an element have with one or multiple elements, this relationship is the effect that each one causes on the others. For this reason, I agree with Thoreau about the connection that men, nature, and society have between them, as every action of one provokes a reaction on the others. Science and religion have broadened this idea that associates the three of them, supporting the connection of which Thoreau argued. Thus, each one is complemented

Was the bloodbath that is the French Revolution doomed to happen? On the eve prior to the downfall of the Ancien Regime, there was no discernable mood that could have propelled the onslaught of it from the three estates; rather, certain groups of people, such as rural commoners, intellectuals of Grub Street, philosophes, members of the upper third estate, nobility, and clergy were concerned to varying degrees with the issues of taxation and social equality (privilege). Although they were worried

According to Beccaria, the proper basis of law in human society is in the people. The idea of law revolves around human nature, around the sovereignty. In Chapter 1, Beccaria states that the people gave up their complete liberty of freedom in order to avoid living in a constant state of war. Without having laws, the people would not know their limitations, and, therefore, would have no limitations. Not knowing their limitations, society would be blown into anarchy. Men would encroach on the lives

What does Rousseau say happens in the transition from the state of nature to civil society? When man is born, he is born with a natural freedom; as man moves from a state of nature to a state of civil society (sovereign), he consents to give up a degree of that freedom for protection, liberty, and safety. When we form these societies, we form them with like-minded individuals, all working towards a common goal: the common good. The state owes the people the defense of their rights and ensures

Hello Professor and Fellow Classmates, With the topic of the discussion for this week, I agree with the ideas of both the philosophy. They have some good point of views that I think if we could combine them together, we would have a perfect Social Contract. Hobbes created Social Contract in the 17th Century when the world was wild and dangerous to him. People was too self-interested that they would do whatever it took to survive. He called it “state of nature”, a place where life is “solitary, poor

In 1796 Maria Edgeworth published a series of short stories in a book entitled, The Parent Assistant where she strives to provide tales to educate eighteenth century British children and their parents. Edgeworth was a firm believer in the rational education of children and focused on rational thinking, and the equal education opportunity for women. In three of the stories within this set, she focuses on a female character. In “The Birthday Present,” “Simple Susan,” and “The Bracelet,” Edgeworth has