2. Why doesn't Voltaire believe that the soul is different from the activity of the body?
3. Why does Voltaire say "equality is at once the most natural and at the same time the most chimerical of things"?
4. How is Voltaire able to regard common religious belief as superstitious, fanatic, and dogmatic--in his Dictionary entries on Hell, Fanaticism, Right and Wrong, Morality, and Religion--and yet still be a religious believer?
5. For Rousseau, why does force not create right?
6. What is the general will? And how does the social contract create the possibility for social morality (justice, rights, duties) through the creation of the general will?
7. Why does entering into the social contract not deny or reduce one's liberty? Indeed, why is being forced to abide by the general will being forced to be free?
8. What is the difference between the natural liberty, civil liberty, and moral liberty? And how is "obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves liberty"?
9. What is the difference between the will of all and the general will? And why is the general will always good?
10. Why is the legislator necessary?