SOCI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Political Philosophy, Breastfeeding
16 Sep 2019
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If you love someone, set them free. When you have multinational states, if you allow the units of the state the right of a referendum if they wish to leave, people don"t feel trapped and they sometimes to stay. Spain won"t allow catalonia to have a referendum so they feel trapped (present in letter 116) If you don"t allow people to go, they get politicized and want to go. He is interested in institutions in any case. He is the founder of a second social theory. There is a certain psychology of modern societies that will make us unhappy. Nearly 40% of people in a western society consult a therapist and take drugs. He was born in 1712 and died in 1778 in geneva. Geneva is the city of calvin (city of the protestant reformation) Referred to himself as a citizen of reformation. He had a miserable childhood and his father leaves him alone.
