PAPM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Contract

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Public Affairs and Policy Management
• Course: PAPM 1000
• Professor: Marc Hanvelt

Document Summary

Remember: you have to give something up from the state of nature to live in a political society. Locke thought we were self-serving, so we didn"t like to give up our stuff, especially fundamental things. So our contract is we"ll give something up in exchange for something else, and that something else cannot be denied to us or else we have a right to remove the government. For rousseau the freedom we seek to preserve in political society is life according to self-given law, moral life. Moral inequality was inequality where some people ruled over others, Someone on an island could reasonably live a life of self- rule. Legitimate laws have to be willed by you and if you live according to a law given by someone else, you are subject to the will of another aka a slave. Social contract; laws of the government are self-given.