PSCI 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Thucydides, Civil Society, Thrasymachus
10 Oct 2018
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Church and state were both resistant to change. For the enlightenment, there was also a sense of rational secularism. People are by nature born free but civil society enslaves us and binds us to others. Rousseau rejects both hobbes" idea and locke"s idea. Rousseau says that the arts and sciences will allow for change and progress: better education will diminish or lessen prejudice, the sciences will conquer diseases. Moral equality and corruption will go together and a healthy society will have neither. His essay becomes very influential in france and soon the rest of europe. Arts and sciences can improve equality in society. He says that the spartans should be ashamed of themselves for drawing artists and scientists away from their walls. He says that a society who praises the arts and sciences at the same time, encourages inequality as the talents required for each will create differences among people.
