SCS 1160 Lecture : Class 9. Rousseau.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 1160
• Professor: Jordan Stancil

Document Summary

How many crimes, murder, and wars could we have been spared if property lines did not exist: the fruits of the earth belongs to everyone, the earth itself belongs to no one . People begin to live together in some sort of congealed relationship generated by habit. Public esteem being to be praised, people fight over revenge, honour, sexual jealousy. 155-116: sad moment in the historical projector: the fatal accident. Accident: something happened by chance, something went wrong. Rousseau thinks all of human history has been diverted because of this accident. The fatal accident: the invention of metallurgy (blacksmiths), which led to the exploitation of agriculture because not everyone was looking for food or taking part in agriculture anymore. Believes there may have been a volcano and saw ore come from the volcano and learn from the explosion that the ore melts and can be molded. This is the first division of humanity.