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Rousseau is commonly called a `radical` thinker. Does the term plausibly describe his approach to law?
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Rousseau is commonly called a `radical` thinker. Does the term plausibly describe his approach to law? Rousseau was the presenter of challenging idea about human beings, nature, politics and history. Whether he was found interesting or disturbing, it is impossible not to be affected by his ideas. In this essay it is necessary to explore whether these ideas make him radical as some would suggest or merely makes him , like other thinkers a renowned philosopher, with ideas that he believed would make the world a better place. Rousseau was very definitive about his views of how the world should have been, which is why he was most likely labelled a radical thinker, he heavily attacked the new science of politics that was headed by the likes of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. In the Discourse on Inequality he rejected the previous attempts to account for the origins of government...
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