POL 2108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Civil Society, Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty
10 Apr 2016
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Rousseau was an intellectual but did not represent them. Rousseau didn"t travel himself to see the continent, he was a vagabond. 1784 moved to paris this is wrong little success at numerous careers. Had access to privileged society but always understood and resented that it was a matter of noblism and elitism. Most interesting writings are in the confessions. Doesn"t liberate us like hobbes and locke thought: sees defects of civil society how it can corrupt the individual, civil society creates artificial wants that the individual doesn"t really need, civil society is simply unjust. Humanity needs it to survive and increase sophistication. Define the conditions of a good political order. Preoccupation of the modern state with survival leads to the contrary of that which will lead to happiness the state becomes restricted commerce. Distinction of rich and poor: the basis of human relations becomes a calculation of private interests.
