POLC71H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hugo Grotius, Majoritarianism
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Interpretive questions: what is the general will? (=whose will" is it?, what is the relationship b/w the private will of an individual citizen and the general will of a society, why does power exercised according to the general will not compromise freedom, your participation is the exercise of your freedom, which is more important than the, what is the general will? particular issue. To be free is to be free from something (sometimes called negative freedom"): for rousseau, authentic freedom requires not so much freedom from something, but the freedom to do something (sometimes called positive freedom"), freedom is in the experience of doing what it is you have an authentic will to do, where does private will conflict with general will, chapter 7, book 1: whoever refuses to obey the general will, he will be forced to do so by the entire body.
