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   * Social Contract - An idea proposed by Jean Jacques Rousseau that a group of people could set up a set of laws to live by.  Each person would affirm acceptance of the contract and would be bound to it so long as they lived under the government.  The United States of America is the first government to be established using this method.
   * General Will - An idea proposed by Jean Jacques Rousseau that people in a group will aim to do what is best for the group if they set aside personal interests.  It has been observed that a group of people do not always act in the best interest of all the people.  They act in the general good, but Rousseau was very pessimistic that a general will could be achieved.
+  * Catharsis - Literally a cleansing.  Aristotle argued that a powerful play could raise emotions such as fear to rise within us and be purged through the watching of the performance.  The opposing view suggests that these emotions would not be present otherwise and thus th we should not partake of these performances.
+  * Lucretius - atomist, 1st century B.C. - //On the Nature of Things//
+  * Thales, Water
+  * Anaximenes, Air