POLI 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Presupposition, Individual And Group Rights

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 231
• Professor: Arash Abizadeh

Document Summary

Le(cid:272)ture: ousseau(cid:859)s social contract: legitimacy of exercise of political power: how, natural freedom. No natural authority exists for rousseau: to rule, you need a social contract. Only form of authority that is present in s of n = father over child: exists only for the preservation of the child. E(cid:454)(cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge of (cid:858)(cid:859)(cid:374)atural freedo(cid:373)(cid:859)(cid:859) for a (cid:858)(cid:859)(cid:272)i(cid:448)il freedo(cid:373)(cid:859)(cid:859: what could this new kind of freedom be, in state of nature, natural freedom comes from independence from others. Once you become dependent of others, you forfeit some freedom and not self-sufficient anymore b. Problem: in society, it is no longer possible to be independent. I(cid:374) a (cid:272)i(cid:448)il so(cid:272)iet(cid:455), (cid:455)ou(cid:859)re (cid:374)o lo(cid:374)ger self-sufficient: e. g. Freedom to do what you want within the constraint that are put by the political sphere: natural freedom: Only thing that can constraint those freedom is your own self: new freedom aka civil freedom. Civil freedom/liberty is acquired by entering the social contract.