SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Linear Motor, Social Inequality, Aristocracy
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Without a strong ruler human society is big and monstrous. Rosseau find a social order whose laws were in greatest harmony with the fundamental laws of nature. Hobbes thinker of the enlightenment interested in how society works has the advancement of civilization corrupted us or improved us (made us more moral) Natural man is peaceful we are naturally peaceful - man"s basic psych. nature hypothetical construct our internal natural and external nature satisfaction of needs mate, food, rest. War is a social institution we learned to attack once we are social. Man makes war a member of an organized community his own community against another he becomes a warrior only after he becomes a citizen . Conditions that make society and eventual warlike state: division of labour, social inequality, cultivation of plants, domestication of animals, class and wealth status emerge. Some people pass the wealth on to children wealth want to maintain property gov"t wants to protect the rich.