EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Human Events, Social Contract
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. That is, a major concept of the enlightenment is what can be considered. There is in humanity a kind of equality and shared understandings given by nature. We need to recreate society to account for our (lost) It is implicit in kant"s appeal to the general reading public freedom. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The creator is (merely) the maker of natural law(s) Emanuel schikaneder playing the role of papegeno. Papageno"s introductory aria and meeting with tamino . The interplay of singing ( arias ) and speaking recitative . We will see in the second act to what extent he does/can achieve enlightenment.
