Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Amour-Propre
12 Apr 2017
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Rousseau fixer-upper (improving upon hobbes and locke: keep individuals from becoming corrupted, avoid letting amour propre dominate and avoid losing compassion, maximize our liberty and equality a. If we enter society, we have to subject ourselves to social control a. i. Locke would support standing up against the sovereign if they don"t follow the laws of nature, but for rousseau, this is a way of masking self-interest b. ii. This is diluting the sovereign in rousseau"s opinion: for rousseau, the sovereign includes everyone c. i. Rousseau would say locke and hobbes" system puts power into the hands of individualists who would rule in their own interest. The sovereign is the entire community: every individual will give up their rights to the community. Anything less means the system probably won"t work: different from hobbes, b/c for hobbes, the sovereign is outside the covenant and is not bound by the community.
