1. Locke & Rousseau on Freedom
Rousseau and Locke begin their work on political theory with a discussion on the state of nature. ... For Rousseau, Humans cannot reason until language is formed, and during the State of Nature language has not yet been conceived because humans were not interacting. ... One must challenge Rousseau's theory by asking: "If the world is so perfect in the State of Nature, how did it become what it is today?" ... In order to interact, humans then developed language, which eventually resulted in reason; it happened in this order because one cannot reason without thinking in words. ... Then comp...
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