In his best work "Two treatises on government " the philosopher point out that the state of nature does not have the Hobbes' negative sides of conflict and passion's domain. Differently in Locke's state of nature humans do have rationality and they are, according to liberal philosophy, equal and free. ... One of the main point in this book, which is really modern and to some extent anticipates the Marxist doctrine, is that Rousseau thinks that is not human beings to be corrupted but the society itself which consequently affects the human behavior (Held:2006, 44). In Rousseau...

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The advances in science and technology were said to have a great influence on the conditions of human life. ... (514 Western Civilization) Man believed that, through reason, we become more aware of the laws of nature and the role it plays in the universe. ... The idea that humans will continue to progress and improve is as truthful as it was then and now. ... A few thought that, science caused a shift between men and nature which may have resulted in unhappiness. ... Humans were in the bonds of ignorance, where they lacked specific knowledge. ...

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He used a very human centered approach to improving the individual. ... Bradstreet uses nature to point everything to God. She believes that nature is able to praise God, but humans are inadequate. ... He gives the idea of the study of nature. s Compare/Contrast The Puritans and the Enlightenment era would agree that fundamental theology starts with nature. ... Paine was more focused on the human centered ideals of the enlightenment period. ...

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The Enlightenment also saw the development of optimism in regards to the abilities of humans to solve their own problems with their government and societies. ... Locke saw humans as good, rational, social, cooperative, and tolerant. It was his belief that, in the state of nature, there was an original equality where all peoples had the right to autonomy and freedom. ... Voltaire, Helvetius, and Bentham were all respected individuals in philosophy in the time and used the optimism of the age to develop new ideas about human behaviour. ...

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Thomas Hobbes, the famous author of "Leviathan", (1651), was a theorist on the law, the state of nature and the concept of social contract, and as such, one of the founders of modern political philosophy. He argued that both the law of nature and social contract  provided the basis of sovereignty. ... His thought encompasses various fields (social criticism, political theory, ethics, theology) and is expressed in many literary genres such as speeches, novels...The complex freedom of man's original state of nature is the main focus of Rousseau's Social Contract upon...

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Oftentimes the characters in a novel can reveal truths about human nature. ... Terry Fallis manages to reveal the power humans have over their own situations, all under the guise of a political satire. ...

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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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This kind of a circular cause-and-effect pattern reveals the true nature of the influence political culture and system have on each other. ... Political culture has mellowed to appreciate individualism, equality and human rights above all but still carries a nationalistic element. ...

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Rawls three basic features for liberal people are "a reasonably just constitutional democratic government that serves their fundamental interests, citizens united by what Mill called "common sympathies", and finally, a moral nature". ... Also, it brings out the greediness in humans in which people would do anything to consume more (Enron). ... But since he believed that there was a common, homogenous human origin, Buffon attributed the differences in bodily characteristics to environmental factors." ...

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