Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Sovereign People, Body Politic
8 Jul 2014
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Was the new moral beginning which forms a body politic (or people for rousseau) It is the step by which a collection of warring individuals becomes a sovereign people with a. Each gives himself to all and remains as free as before. All are forced to be free (393) the constant will of all the members of the state is the general will: by it they are citizens and free. Means that i respect myself as a moral and responsible human being; self-love is not vanity, wealth, or domination>>means that i do not enslave or imprison them in poverty because i would be depriving them of their humanity. Everybody is a slave, the poor to their poverty and the rich to their wealth (that is, always wanting more of it) Equality-no slavery; absorption into the whole is protection against vulnerability to individuals or groups (geneva)
