POL320Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Human Nature
22 Mar 2017
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Rousseau critique on hobbes and locke social contract. Contracts fail to create a true human association. Their contracts show that humans are free to choose. We are not bound by our instincts. The human animal is a product of society and not nature. Human nature is malleable and are not permanent. Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. We have free will, natural freedom, no one is bound to the will of the other. The ability to check impulses or non impulses. The freedom to do anything you want is not freedom it is slavery; that is to be a slave to one"s desires. If we are going to live in a community we need chains or a contract so to speak. Chains that restrain freedom are natural not conventional. We want to join together and remain as free as we were. The family is the most ancient and natural form of human association.
