Discussion
'The "natural" man will be one in whom strong conscience and steadfast reason have successfully harmonized self-love and sympathy'. Who advocated this ?
Answer: B
The key attributes the idea to Rousseau.
Rousseau's natural man is moved by two sentiments: self-love (amour de soi), the healthy concern for one's own preservation, and pity or sympathy for the suffering of others. His educational and moral writings, above all Emile, aim at a person in whom conscience and reason keep these two in balance, which is what the passage describes.
Hobbes's natural man is driven by fear and self-interest with no natural sympathy, Bentham reduced motives to pleasure and pain, and Locke's natural man is governed by the law of nature known through reason rather than by a harmony of sentiments.
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