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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…

Argumentation: Ownership To have and, if possible, to hold is to be and to do, said Jean-Paul Sartre in his essay Being and Nothingness. "The totality of my possessions reflects the totality of my being," he wrote in 1949. "I am what I have… what is mine is myself." it is seen in societal rule that we are not so much what we think or do but what brand of clothing we have, what car we drive, to the home we live in, but are those things truly ours? Sartre views on ownership is an unhealthy…

better if the rich focus more on the rest of society rather than just their own income and profits. After reading, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, and Karl Marx’s Das Capital I have learned that there is a separation between a our wants and needs, and how difficult it is to create a fair and equal economic system for everyone. In Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s, Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau states that man has a mentality of “This is mine”…

Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, came up with a natural morality concept which contrasted with what he termed as hypocrisy and fraud portrayed by the contemporary civilized man. In his book, he paints a picture of a man in the state of nature as he was before civilization. In this state man’s natural goodness was not yet corrupted by the society. His fundamental idea was of moral sentiment concept which was innate in all individuals and not that which was acquired from the community. He argues…

Upon recognizing how challenging it is to reconcile the tensions that arise in a modern liberal society as a result of cultural diversity, it becomes increasingly clear as to why Jean Jacques Rousseau conceptualized his ideal state as a homogenous one . That is not to say that cultural diversity is not valuable and should not be promoted, but rather that Rousseau, as many of us often are, was inclined to take the easy way out. Nevertheless, as zo0oz perceives, cultural diversity should be…

Comparing Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacque Rousseau: Views on The Social Contract “There are no facts, only interpretations.” This quote by Friedrich Nietzsche illustrates a key point to philosophy; everything stated is solely an opinion. Throughout the text, Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy, Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau each express their own philosophy regarding the social contract through their most famous writing. They express both similar and differing views regarding…

each man has a particular, universal human nature and has the same basic qualities. In other words, God creates a man, so a man’s life is only directed by God. On the other hand, however, others argue that existence precedes essence. In the words of Jean-Paul Sartre, one of this view’s main proponents, “It means that, first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and only afterwards, defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first…

The study of “the self” in philosophy is often concentrated around the idea of existence. To understand what it is to “be” means realizing a universal mentality in a singular human life. Jean-Paul Sartre addresses his perspective primarily through phenomenology and the concept of free will. He claims, to be human is to be depicted by “an existence that precedes its essence” (Sartre 318). In this paper, I will argue for Sartre’s theory of existentialism by analyzing human consciousness and…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an English Philosopher whose work was influential especially in the eighteenth century. Some of his main works include the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, and the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. Both of these works were written in response to prompts from the Academy of Dijon. For the first discourse, the prompt was, “Has the restoration of the sciences and arts tended to purify morals?” and for the second discourse the prompt was, "What is the origin of…

The leading existential philosopher pf the twentieth century, Jean-Paul Sartre, in his book “Existentialism and Human Emotions” states that existence precedes essence. Existence comes before your soul, believes, and characteristics—you exist and create who you are. By nature we are greedy and competitive, but we have a choice. It is not “essence precedes existence.” You can choose not to be greedy, you can choose not to be competitive, or you can choose to be a good person. There is always a…