PSYC 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bernard Crick, Modernism, Economic System
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Helpful to see rousseau as advancing 3 arguments in the discourse regarding. Discourse on sciences and arts (1749) anti-enlightenment: progress was an illusion, development of science did not bring happiness nor virtue to culture. Virtue is only possible in simple, agrarian societies where people live frugal lives in small family units. People in modern sophisticated cultures are corrupt. Idealized simple life of common man: seen as dangerous man . Source of inequality among natural men: not a result of human nature, but rather an artificial invention of society. Result of corruption by society of man"s natural goodness. But instead, determined by the kind of society we live in. Economic system: we are the kinds of beings that social and political relations make us. Says that adam and eve were created in a state of perfection, with a natural tendency to goodness.
