PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Body Politic, Unanimous Consent
31 Dec 2015
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Jean-jacques rousseau was a learned man known as one of the original founders of the social contract theory, along with hobbes, however his version has notable differences to hobbes". He begins by defining the conventions that found the order. In the pre-political society, men live under the condition of relative equality in the sense that no man can overcome everyone to remain the master forever . Temporary domination based on sheer force does not constitute a right rousseau does not agree with hobbes" view that in the state of nature men are all at war with each other. The antagonism among men in such state is not war because war is not a relationship between man and man, but between state and state (133-134) There is a point in the development of mankind, where the goal of self-preservation is beyond the control of any single man in the state of nature.
