INTA 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Free Trade, Collective Security, Stoicism
12 Feb 2013
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Classical stoicism: what unites people versus what divides them. Rights come from reason, not necessarily religion. John locke: wrote of the separation of church and state, people have rights that are not necessarily divined from divinity, tabula rasa blank slate, reason is the be-all end-all. David hume: thought along the lines of locke. Jean-jacques rousseau: believed humans are motivated by passion, the opposite of reason. Both rousseau and locke differed from hobbes in the belief that human nature can be controlled and society can be structured to help society: reason can be harnessed to build civil society. Reason: reason can be used to build civil society (hume, locke) Passion: animates human nature (rousseau, hobbes, kant), but works in conjunction with reason. Biology: human beings are similar, and society can reflect human needs (rousseau) Does not believe in the hobbes" idea (strong state), locke"s idea (knowledge is what is observed), or rousseau"s ideas (passion)
