HIST1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Manumission, Philosophes, Denis Diderot
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Political refugee in amsterdam during the english civil war. Two treatises of government: natural rights life, liberty, and property, except for the hunter-gatherer societies. Do not need to attend to their rights in a meaningful way. Locke sees north america as populated by hunter- gatherers: they have not worked the land and there is no just. Slavery is vile and base: except for prisoners taken in a just war claim to their land. Grows up in geneva: city state so it is small enough to be a face to face society, heavy participation in governments. Emile pedagogical/novel treatise (1762: talk about the tabula rasa individual blank slate, this person is emile - rousseau imagines him being educated in the state of nature away from cities and city states. On the social contract (1762: hobbes the ruler will save us from ourselves, locke ultimate sovereign and is he messes with our rights then we can change it, general will.
