Rousseau affirms that "this is not man's original state and that it is the spirit of society alone and the inequality it engenders that so changes and alters all our natural inclinations" (117). ...

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Ultimately the main freedom the Social Contract provides is positive freedom, it is freedom from the baser desires and inclinations inherent in man which allows him to gain moral freedom and to "live the life that the rational person would chose to live". ...

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Machiavelli, on the other hand, argues that politics is not natural, that ambitious men artificially construct political societies, and that ordinary men have a inclination to withdraw from political life and seek solitude. ...

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The appetite to achieve power is also a central concept, Hobbes writes, "I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire for power after power, that ceaseth only in Death."" ...

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