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Locke's The Second Treatise of Civil Government: The Significance of Reason
The significance of reason is discussed both in John Locke's, The Second
Treatise of Civil Government, and in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's, Emile. However,
the definitions that both authors give to the word “reason” vary significantly.
I will now attempt to compare the different meanings that each man considered to
be the accurate definition of reason.
John Locke believed that the state “all men are naturally in ... is a
state of perfect freedo....
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