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Aristóteles, antes deles todos, tinha dito que os homens não são naturalmente iguais, e que uns nascem para…

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Rousseau in his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1754), that it might in fact be the savage and not – as everyone had grown used to thinking – the modern worker who was the better off of the pair?

Jim is what I call a rugged individualist. His brand of individualism comes straight out of the philosophy of the Enlightenment era, the writings of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, the same philosophical roots as the American Revolution and soon after that the French Revolution. Gone forever was the doctrine of the divine right of kings. It got repla

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Eu quero investigar se pode haver, na ordem civil, alguma regra de administração, legítima e segura, que tome os homens tais como são e as leis tais como podem ser. Cuidarei de ligar sempre, nesta pesquisa, o que o direito permite com o que o direito prescreve, a fim de que a justiça e a utilidade de modo algum se encontrem divididas.

Oh ! sans doute, quelque lecteur pensera ici que le paysan français se souciait peu alors du choix de l’Académie de Berlin, choix que d’ailleurs il ignorait. Mais il n’ignorait pas la place que la France occupait en Europe, et que cette place était la première. Du moins savait-il vaguement qu’il appartenait au peuple le plus civilisé du monde ; et

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.