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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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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Excerpts from John Locke [pp. 1-6], and Edmund Burke [pp. 7-11] from this document. This should be regarded as necessary reading for answering the Questions on Locke and Burke. Excerpts From John Locke, Second Treatise of Government: CHAPTER II: LIBERTY AND EQUALITY: [II.4-5 4. To understand political power aright, and derive it from its original, we must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or de...

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