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This 25-page paper answers questions dealing with philosphy and modern western culture, while examining the philosophies of historic writers including Burke, Rousseau, Bonaparte, Hobbes and Wollstonecraft.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau, Carl von Clausewitz, Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft. The answers come from careful analysis of their writings. 1. Hobbes, a precursor of the Enlightenment, asserts "right
reason" generates political structure. However, Napoleon, the practical politician and intellectual child of Rousseau, argues "self interest" and "fear" generates political structure and inform political action. Place each
of authors on the range between these two views. In his writing, The Leviathan, Hobbes actually moves humanity toward materialistic
and rigid philosophies, as well as the "natural state" of human beings, which is to be in constant conflict with one another. Though his ideas of "right reason" might seem
to establish political structure (or lack thereof, in some cases), Hobbes has also argued that sometimes our fears and desires end up leading much of humanity to a condition known
as the commonwealth, one in which humanity surrenders its individual powers to the authority of a specific (and absolute) sovereign. Mans natural state, Hobbes believes, is that of chronic chaos,
one in which constant arguments and chronic states of war are more than norm than not. The only way to prevent such things from happening are to put a good
deal of power into one ruler (or, at the very least, a collection of rulers who wont end up fighting among themselves).
According to Hobbes, such individual obedience to a sovereign leader is absolutely necessary, in order to prevent humanity and its endless state of war. As an aside, Hobbes theories can
be put to the test in this day and age. Its interesting to note that since the fall of the Soviet Union during the late 1980s and early 1990s, were
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