... could not be questioned. However, he envisioned the "general will" as being God or at least containing this authority. To him it was a "civil religion" without God. He saw that man could in a sense transition Augustine's "City of Man," which was corruptible and evil into the "City of God ... by trade from the Far East. This new "middle class" began to ask new questions and saw would help spark the renaissance and the Enlightenment. Why obey? According to Machiavelli, one obeys because they, as an individual, consent to. However, it must be noted that they do ... define what the overall ...

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