PHL244H1 Lecture Notes - Thought Experiment, Advantageous
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Feb 6th: rousseau amour de soi vs. amour-propre (multiple) self created by society, conflicts between multiple society- produced selfs, conflicts between products of society and our actual self. Rousseau: each has an individualistic part of us, but also as the result of society, we require an artificial self. Natural, individualistic self should be identified rather the social self. Definition of natural self: before having to enter into society. All humans are in society, all human are civilized, in culture so he thinks that to see the true nature of the soul, all the properties of the soul that it has in virtue of having being civilized. Has to present his account in a narrative that starts before the present, and the narrative will carry us to the present. He refers to the state of nature, the state in which men has not yet entered into society.
