Their rational religion is called Deism, the idea that God created the universe like a master engineer and then left it to run on its own. ... For the Encyclopedists, human improvement was not a religious issue, but simply a matter of mastering the natural world through science and technology and mastering human passions through an understanding of how individuals and societies work. ... Contrary to his earlier work, Rousseau claimed that the state of nature is brutish condition without law or morality, and that there are good men only a result of society's presence. ...

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He stresses that one flaw with modern society, which is not shared by the natural man, is that people are concerned with their reputation, morality, and how other perceives them. ... Primarily, I feel that as we evolved into a society we were able to learn to control and master nature. ...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau constructed The Social Contract to solve the question of freedom, specifically, the preservation and survival of what he terms as civil freedom, and his solution to this problem, in its most general sense, is the construction of the civil state. Through the grouping of citizens...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau constructed The Social Contract to solve the question of freedom, specifically, the preservation and survival of what he terms as civil freedom, and his solution to this problem, in its most general sense, is the construction of the civil state. Through the grouping of citizens...

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Jefferson's words of the new Constitution were based on strong merit, but may have been overly optimistic considering the state of morality at the time: "I believe this the strongest government on earth. ...

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