... as the state is a subject of thee. This converging movement towards reasoning and justice grew from the theories of such revolutionary thinkers as Voltaire, Rousseau, and the Encyclopedists, who presented a vision of a liberal community with equal rights and responsibilities, wherein reason replaced the monarch's claim to divine right as the ultimate authority, and where all men lived in a brotherhood. It must ... ...

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... perspective. This point is further emphasised by John Keane in his article The Media and Democracy. In this article, Keane believes that enlightenment thinkers "failed to see that their utopian vision contained several blind spots" (Keane, 1991: 35). Similar to Kant's theory, "the use of reason must be free in public", Cunningham and Flew continually consider the role of the Australian ... ...

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