SOC SCI H1F Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Radiation And Nuclear Safety Authority, Histology, Academic Freedom
1 Feb 2017
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The final component of rousseau and his ideas on freedom (pg. 156) man is born free and everywhere he is in chains: a fundamental significance, according to rousseau, freedom is terribly important for men (pg. 162) to renounce f(cid:396)eedo(cid:373) is to (cid:396)e(cid:374)ou(cid:374)(cid:272)e o(cid:374)e"s hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)it(cid:455: not having freedom is renouncing your humanity and your rights as a man. A pretty powerful setting of the importance of freedom. What types of liberty do people have? (pg. 167: what man loses through the social contract is his natural liberty, an unlimited right to everything that tempts him and that he can acquire. Natural liberty exists in the state of nature: what he gains in this society is civil liberty and proprietary ownership of all that he possesses. To give up natural liberty, you gain civil liberty. The things you possess you now have a right to and the general will. Moral liberty makes man truly the master of himself controls your behavior.
