Goodrich's understanding of the difficult problems raised in advancing and defending human liberty. ... Free will, that quality which characterizes the uniqueness of human beings, is evidenced in their acts, behaviors, and choices. ... Professor George Martin addresses the sources and nature of these changes. ... Such views were challenged by those who denied that liberty was a means by which men served ends that were properly human. ... Rousseau argued that man is separated from other living creatures by historical developments rather than human nature "a relativistic fallac...

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However often contradicted through our own human err of bias perception, the works of great thinkers such as Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke have provided a pivotal influence on societal values. This philosophy is the groundwork for what we now more wholly understand as laws of nature, in whatever form, not to be exploited or undermined. ... No longer was human comprehension run by the mystical and supernatural once the rational version of comprehension proved much more convincing. ... The philosophical values that carried notions of natural human rights and power were unexplained by the coun...

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