POLI 3P71 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sexual Differentiation, Masculinity
13 Sep 2017
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Lecture # 3 week 4 masculinity and citizenship: foundations in political theory. J. j. rousseau (1712-1778) *importance: original state of nature - golden/patriarchal age - 18th century/rousseau"s time. Aristotle - 300bc - makes the argument that being political and participating in politics develops our human nature. Through politics we develop our prudence, man is by nature a political animal, someone who doesn"t participate is either a god or a beast, and cultivate our moral reasoning. Aristotle doesn"t diminish this he says that you cant have a full political realm without the private one gilligan says that we should elevate this, tries to take these virtues and reinvigorate them: j. j. rousseau (1712-1788) He uses the language of nature and us having to return to nature which we have gotten away from. Something that is natural is desirable and against nature is wrong. He uses the term nature in several ways. Uses it to mean biological, before civilization a state of nature.
