you sound like my Parent´s
Well, According to Machiavelli human nature is
completely selfish and full of ego and that they always think about their own self interest like the masses desire safety and security and the ruler wants power, and that they are very selfish to gain and conquer their motives.
On the other hand, Rousseau repeatedly claims that a single idea is at the centre of his world view, namely, that
human beings are good by nature but are rendered corrupt by society.
Still Kant argued that how we perceive this external world depends on how the inputs of that world are processed by our cognitive faculties and sensory apparatus. This implies that our cognitive intuitions may “distort our representation of what exists.” And this means we know the world only as it appears to us, not as it really is. Furthermore things as they really are may not even be in space and time! [Thus Kant’s Copernican revolution. We are at the center of our reality, structuring it with our minds; our minds are not passive receptors of the external world.]
I personally prefer Kant´s point of view,
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