HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
Question
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Voltaire
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Montesquie
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Rousseau
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Wollstonecraft
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Social Contract, with its famous opening sentence ‘Man is born free, and he is everywhere in chains’, stated instead that people could only experience true freedom if they lived in a civil society that ensured the rights and well-being of its citizens.
Detailed explanation-2: -Rousseau argued that the general will of the people could not be decided by elected representatives. He believed in a direct democracy in which everyone voted to express the general will and to make the laws of the land. Rousseau had in mind a democracy on a small scale, a city-state like his native Geneva.
Detailed explanation-3: -Rousseau was a creative writer and used everything from opera to novels and romances to explain his philosophy. He believed that human beings are inherently good, but are corrupted by the evils of society.
Detailed explanation-4: -With the famous phrase, “man is born free, but he is everywhere in chains, ‘’ Rousseau asserts that modern states repress the physical freedom that is our birthright, and do nothing to secure the civil freedom for the sake of which we enter into civil society.