SOC SCI H1F Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Corporatism, Academic Freedom
20 Mar 2019
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Pg 161 - natural liberty, which is limited by the power of the individual vs civil liberty, which is limited by the general will. Through the social contract man loses natural liberty and gains civil liberty, the right of property and what he possesses. To live obediently to the law we prescribe to ourselves is freedom. It is willing the general will and obeying the general will. A behavior that was forced upon us that we were required to adopt (showering, using the toilet, brushing our teeth) has become basic to our existence. This is a restriction on our liberty, but we count it as part of our freedom. Another example: someone is a smoker, and they want to stop but can"t. The ability to smoke is part of our freedom, but we feel restricted if we can"t obey a law that we prescribed to ourselves. Rousseau"s notion of the ultimate freedom: prescribing ourselves a law and.
