... a point of utility for Rousseau. He saw that this created cohesion and a sort of blind faith that 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" which was good and ruled by the "general will." This period did have some philosophers that pushed the progressive envelop and Aquinas was such a man. He believed that man ... " began to ask new questi...

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