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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In 1656, he earned his bachelor of the arts degree, then taught rhetoric, Greek and continued to work toward getting a master of arts. ... In 1671, Locke started a deliberation group to talk about principles of morality and religion, with about half a dozen friends of his. ...

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- If men are not under control of some powerful master, they do not find much pleasure in the company of others, because they expect to be valued by others to the same extent as they value themselves. ... XXI Of the Liberty of Subjects John Locke - First is the assumption of a system of morality--the natural law derives from a theory of justice, a set of rights. ...

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Jefferson's words of the new Constitution were based on strong merit, but may have been overly optimistic considering the state of morality at the time: "I believe this the strongest government on earth. ...

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