POL320Y5 Lecture Notes - Alcohol By Volume, Tyrant, Totalitarianism
2 Apr 2013
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Rousseau weaving flowers through the chains which deceives us what were wearing (discourse. Discourse inequality= one of the reasons we put up with extreme inequality, but it"s an emotional and political inequality, those treat me above me, i can treat those below me, hierarchical system of domination. Greatest fear of these slaves= to fall in the social hierarchy, descend in terms of power, fall on our supriors. All of us are in chains = born free, but born in chains. Pry us away from some of our false assumptions about how inequality & dominantion (enslavement) has been taken as natural. Thomas hobbes= force cannot make slavery legitmate, just because you overpower someone, hold a sword t someones neck, you have not created political legitimacy. Dominant form in human history, is by conquest, someone comes with superior forces, that"s your new king, if you don"t submit, you die.
