POL320Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Civil Religion, Montesquieu, Positive Liberty
12 Dec 2016
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Rousseau"s idea of freedom and coming to terms with on the social contract. If one enquires into precisely wherein the greatest good of all consists, which should be the purpose of every system of legislation, one will find that it boils down to these two principal objects, liberty and equality. Liberty, because all personal dependence is that much force taken from the body of the state; equality, because liberty cannot subsist without it. ii, 11: intro- recap. The general will is therefore both a property of the collective and a result of its deliberations, and a property of the individual insofar as the individual identifies as a member of the collective. What is the differences between the civil and moral will: the proto-kantian reading, the proto-nationalist reading. Not promoting a form of morality that is universalistic but a nationalist duty.
