The subjective will for the good, conscience, self-consciousness, while the will remains the master of itself, lays a firm foundation for opposition, but they also are catalysts which force one through the dialectical movement. In morality, the individual will reflects inward towards itself in order that it may become aware of itself (p75 105). ... Hegel's description of processes within morality by the subjective will such as the particular will's, willing of the universal. ... How can morality and particular subjective individuality ever solve this dilemma? ... It is not e...

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The gains from engaging in the social contract is civil liberty, proprietary ownership of all he possesses and most crucially, the addition of moral liberty, "which alone makes man truly the master of himself. ... Moral actions require that humans are free because morality insinuates that an individual chooses to act in that way rather than in an immoral manner that can be caused through external forces. ... Kantian ethics are also challenged because he does not make note of the tension between desires and morality. ... Compared with Kant, Rousseau believed that morality was only evident in ci...

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He is the first thinker who moved away from the classics and reformation thinkers and came to "modern solution" using critics and more modern, rational, empirical methods, criticized religion, morality. ... Everybody having equal rights to welfare of society and do not afraid to use any means to get the aim they want because they are far from morality. ... Besides, as was already mentioned, people are far from morality, which could be kind of guarantee of the functioning of natural laws. ... "What man loses by social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything ...

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The nature of man, as it was put forth by Machiavelli, was that "...all men are ready to change masters in the hope of bettering themselves. In this belief they will take up arms against their master..." ...

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Their rational religion is called Deism, the idea that God created the universe like a master engineer and then left it to run on its own. ... For the Encyclopedists, human improvement was not a religious issue, but simply a matter of mastering the natural world through science and technology and mastering human passions through an understanding of how individuals and societies work. ... Contrary to his earlier work, Rousseau claimed that the state of nature is brutish condition without law or morality, and that there are good men only a result of society's presence. ...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau constructed The Social Contract to solve the question of freedom, specifically, the preservation and survival of what he terms as civil freedom, and his solution to this problem, in its most general sense, is the construction of the civil state. Through the grouping of citizens...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau constructed The Social Contract to solve the question of freedom, specifically, the preservation and survival of what he terms as civil freedom, and his solution to this problem, in its most general sense, is the construction of the civil state. Through the grouping of citizens...

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