Throughout the history of human being, especially in the modern society, people have long been endeavoring to attain the sacred goal of freedom. The slaves tried every means to escape from their owners even at the cost of their lives; wars broke out in those colony countries to broke the bondage from colonial domination for freedom; it is freedom that serve as the leading spirit in the France Reform; and the spirit of liberty has been written as the declaration of human rights into the constitutions. ... The right of freedom is rather a right that is gifted and regulated by the law than a slo...

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Rousseau's idea of the general will is related to the concept of the republic as not just a real entity but one that is in fact more indicative of the values of human nature than the individuals who reside in it. ... Rousseau says, "In the state of nature, where everything takes place in such a uniform manner and where the face of the earth is not subject to those sudden and continual changes caused by the passions and inconstancy of peoples living together.... Ironically, though, Rousseau, an advocate of the idea that humans are inherently good, defies the theories of justice that R...

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The western understanding of gender is based on set of culturally determined binary distinctions, such as public versus private, objective versus subjective, self versus other, reason versus emotion, autonomy versus relatedness, and culture versus nature; the first of each pair of characteristics is typically associated with masculinity, the second with femininity. ... Liberal human rights are uncertain and qualified in relation to women because they are based on a male standard, focusing attention on individual instances of inequality rather than on the systemic socioeconomic structures that ...

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