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Theory of Natural HumanCriticism on Hobbes assertionMan is not selfishMen are social animalsSelfishness and self realization Transformation of amour de soi, a positive self-love, into amour-propre, or pridePolitical TheoryThe Social ContractMan is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains. Rousseau claims that the state of nature was a primitive condition without law or moralityBy joining together into civil society through the social contract and abandoning their claims of natural right, individuals can both preserve themselves and remain free.

Education and Child RearingThe noblest work in education is to make a reasoning man, and we expect to train a young child by making him reason! This is beginning at the end; this is making an instrument of a result. If children understood how to reason they would not need to be educated.-Rousseau Political TheoryIdeal form of social contract and its philosophical underpinningsRousseau argued that the general will is always right and tends to be to the public advantage, but it does not follow that the deliberations of the people are always equally correctConflict between human freedom and the idea of general willConclusion: Rousseaus vision of society was that people should be free and equal

Rousseau thought that The General Will was a society of people who were not self interested, but who possessed a strong moral sense of responsibility and toward the community and work.Conclusion:Rousseaus central argument in The Social Contract is that government attains its right to exist and to govern by the consent of the governed.

The Social Contract is one of the single most important declarations of the natural rights of man in the history of Western political philosophy. Georg W.F. Hegel (1770 - 1831) Hegel was influenced by developing biological fundamentals in that organisms were interdependent upon each other and their environment making them all part of a hierarchy in lifeHegels philosophy opposed rationalism Hegel's thought can be seen as part of a progression of philosophers He developed a new form of thinking and Logic, which he called "speculative reason

Georg W.F. Hegel (1770 - 1831) Absolute Idealism reality was the absolute truth of all logic, spirit and rational ideas encompassing human experience and knowledgeHe believed that everything was interrelated and that the separation of reality into discrete parts was wrongHegel was the first major philosopher to regard history and the Philosophy of History as important

Georg W.F. Hegel (1770 - 1831) His system for understanding history, and the world itself, was developed from his famous dialectic teachings of thesis, antithesis and synthesisHe also held that each person's individual consciousness or mind is really part of the Absolute Mind.

Georg W.F. Hegel (1770 - 1831) Hegel also discussed the concept of alienation in his work, the idea of something that is part of us and within us and yet seems in some way foreign or alien or hostile. Hegel's thought is often considered the summit of early 19th Century German Idealism

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Beiser, Frederick C., 2005. Hegel. New York: Routledge

Francke, Kuno, Howard, William Guild, Schiller, Friedrich, 1913-1914 "The German classics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: masterpieces of German literature translated into English Vol 7, Jay Lowenberg, The Life of Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel". Retrieved 8/1/2014

Helena Rosenblatt (1997). Rousseau and Geneva: from the first discourse to the social contract, 17491762. Cambridge University Press. pp. 2645. ISBN 0-521-57004-2. Retrieved from http://books.google.ca/books?id=0hGoNncv-CkC&pg=PA264 on 8/1/2014

Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Encyclopedia Britannica

Leo Damrosch, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007, p.473

Scruton, Roger, "Understanding Hegel" in The Philosopher on Dover Beach, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1990. ISBN 0-85635-857-6

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