Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Idea Of Freedom

Freedom is viewed very differently by the different philosophers. One may see it as absolute freedom where there is no government control over its citizens. While another can be partial freedom when the government lays out fair and equal laws that the citizens need to abide. Then there is no freedom where the laws and regulations that the government lays out interferes with the daily lives of the citizens. In the world, today you can see what the French philosophers’ Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire had considered freedom and how it ended up.
Charles De Secondat or better known as Baron De Montesquieu had believed that the government should be split into three separate branches the legislative, the executive and the judicial. …show more content…
For Rousseau’s ideal freedom to be achieved the government would have to be disassembled and never to be put back together. This would mean that each person oversees their own choices and there will be no one to judge them on their actions. With this type of freedom, there is not any barriers to hold a person against something or in an invisible box that holds a person in from what they can do. This type of freedom can be easily attained but will cause many problems the length this last. Freedom that Rousseau’s wants is unattainable, it simply wouldn’t have worked in any sense where men during his time wouldn’t have wanted to believe it. A man of a high or noble birth would frown upon the thought of a peasant or a slave being equal to them. The ideals that he has are strong and well surrounded but the logic and reasoning of an unstable and daresay a free for all sort of government is simply …show more content…
He can be argued as the best philosopher during the Enlightenment with his piece called “A Treatise on Toleration”. Voltaire had first thought that no one should have the ideas all men are created equal and how it was preposterous to even think that was an option. But slowly he had started to realize that all these men were the children of god. How the same god had created all the men that he sees and ever heard of and that all men are the same. His ideas of freedom was bound to God and all the judgement we go through in life should be in his eyes and his eyes alone. Voltaire as powerful as he is understood that the life surrounding his ideas of freedom will be challenged and had accepted that. Being able to achieve his ideas would have been long fought especially during eighteenth century where the monarchs still ruled over much of the European lives. Voltaire had believed that the monarch had no control over the lives of the people and that when they are forced to mourn the lives of the dead kings, queens, princesses and princes there should be no reason to do so since they had failed the lives of the millions of citizens that had ruled over there