MMW 14 Lecture 5: 5 - Rousseau and the American:French Revolutions
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Rousseau"s i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:449)ith e(cid:374)lighte(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t thi(cid:374)ke(cid:396)s encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des m tiers 1751-1772: social contract theorists, thomas hobbes, leviathan (1651) Jean-jacques rousseau, le contrat social (1762: all came together and created the first multi volume set of encyclopedias. However, the colonists saw them as foreigners on their land: 1763 king prohibits western expansion, 1773 tea act. 2: 1776 declaration of independence, 1779-80 france, spain, and dutch powers ally themselves with the colonists vs. Britain: 1787 constitutional convention, 1789 bill of rights passed. Rousseau humans are naturally pure and good, but society will corrupt that. A social contract is protection against this corrupting force of beousious society. Hobbes humanity is reckless and impulsive species without a governing body. Rousseau you give up all your rights and get all of your rights back because the government is supposed to act according to the will of the people.
