Focus: Rationality

Now that More, Machiavelli and Hobbes have all passed the revue, -each contributing their own answers to perennial questions regarding political philosophy, it seems only right that, in order to avoid repetition, and to add an agreeable specificity to this blog, one particular topic should be singled out among others which is to be focused on in more detail.

From this point onward I'll try to comment on the concept of rationality as it is used by the political philosophers that have yet to follow: Locke and Rousseau. Rationality is an interesting concept because, in the 18th century, the age of reason, it occupied an important role in any theory about humankind and the manner in which he congregates. Rationality has been both lauded and criticized and it appears in many different definitions. Furthermore, because rationality is believed to be such an inherent part of human nature, and because political philosophers merely derive their theories on politics from their view of human nature, a research on rationality is sure to come to some interesting conclusion.