PHI 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Thought Experiment

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1102
• Professor: Mark Brown

Document Summary

Man is quite simple in terms of wants and needs. Man is naturally morally good only in small groups, in the state of nature. Man is now living in dense social settings. Private property is the downfall of man, it is a part of amour. Propre: rousseau had very little education at first, but then later on finds himself in the crowd of intellectuals, lived in the french enlightenment a cultural and philosophical movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this work, he is trying to find out why inequality exists in man: he is very suspicious of civilization and civilized society, he believes that civilized society corrupts man. Where does it go off the rails: amour propre (cid:732)(cid:724)(cid:720)(cid:733)(cid:738) (cid:739)(cid:734) (cid:731)(cid:734)(cid:741)(cid:724) (cid:720)(cid:733)(cid:723) (cid:734)(cid:721)(cid:738)(cid:724)(cid:738)(cid:738) (cid:734)(cid:741)(cid:724)(cid:737) (cid:734)(cid:733)(cid:724)"(cid:738) (cid:738)(cid:724)(cid:731)(cid:725), (cid:734)(cid:733)(cid:724) (cid:738)(cid:724)(cid:724)(cid:738) (cid:734)(cid:733)(cid:724) (cid:720)(cid:738) being the best. However, it is a vice because if you want see yourself as superior, you must look at others as being below yourself.