These ideas also had a tremendous impact on political thinkers such as Montesquieu and Rousseau in France who were under the corrupt regimes of Louis XV and Louis XVI. ... Bentham believed that society could teach individuals to be rational by giving them an ideal environment to learn proper behaviour in.Utilitarianism became quite popular and was a driving force behind a range of reforms in areas like prisons, law codes, and public health. ...

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One of the main point in this book, which is really modern and to some extent anticipates the Marxist doctrine, is that Rousseau thinks that is not human beings to be corrupted but the society itself which consequently affects the human behavior (Held:2006, 44). In Rousseau's state of nature men are free and equal, the civilization is what made them corrupted. ... "The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and...

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