He explains that an Athenian earns his freedom and citizenship by subduing his animal instincts and passions. ... Aristotle mentions that this process was difficult and it took work to subdue vices, but eventually virtue becomes habitual like the instincts a man overcame. ...
The Social Contract is meant to unfetter each individual, each irrational "animal," and help man to fully know his freedom by using self-control and by signing himself over to the civil state: to the communal movement towards the common good, directed by the general will (Book I: VIII 185). ...
The Social Contract is meant to unfetter each individual, each irrational "animal," and help man to fully know his freedom by using self-control and by signing himself over to the civil state: to the communal movement towards the common good, directed by the general will (Book I: VIII 185). ...
