hes. He also said that power always rests ultimately in the people. Many of Locke's views are the basis for our government. 6. Compare Voltaire with Rousseau.Voltaire condemned traditional authorities and championed for human freedom. He did not believe the lower classes had the capacity for self-government. Whenever restraint was removed, the "ignorant rabble" was a danger. Freedom was to be the privilege only of the enlightened or the intelligent. Roussea believed that all men fought for their freedom. He wanted to take away the representative government and replace it with direct government. Since all men were created free and equal they should not be robbed or ruled by a privileged class. To attain this freedom, would cast away all the trappings of modern society and return to nature. Government merely carries out the will of the people.7. What's Mill and Spencer's view?Mill believed that the phenomenon of social living conforms to fixed laws just as other phenomena do. The factors involved in society are so numerous and changing so constantly that prediction is impossible. Methods from the laboratory are not applicable to the study of society. We can see tendencies in human social development and can point to them as guides. By a study of history, we can discover the laws of social progress and development. He also believed that social well-being was necessary for individual well-being. Society stands for the good of all-individual and it is considered ideal when the society guarantees economic freedom. Spencer believed that each individual had the right to preserve himself. He saw in nature a struggle in which the fittest survived and the less fit perished. Man must be free to struggle and prove their fitness. Society, to him, is essential. Everyone has a right to act to a certain extent, but no farther. The states chief functions are to prevent internal aggression and to protect its members from foreign invasion. Competitio...
