POL S 1 Lecture 6: Rousseau Chart
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Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains (p. 156). Humans, once they reach the age of reason, are naturally free; natural bonds. Human nature of compassion for self-preservation; more utilitarian than fearsome (p. 156). Slavery is not natural exists by force or cowardice (p. 158). Humans are instinctual, amoral, appetitive, and impulsive (p. 166) War is a construct of the state individuals are not really interested in sustained peace or war; State of nature they are originally independent (p. 160) Reason allows humans to transition from the state of nature to the civil state by understanding duty over desire. His faculties are exercised and developed and soul is elevated from a stupid animal to an intelligent being (p. 167) No rational human would subject himself to the sort of society hobbes dreams up; renouncing liberty is renouncing dignity (p. 159).
