SOC101Y1 Lecture : november 15
Document Summary
Believes you need to use the hypothetical construct of the state of nature to suggest that we have the right to criticize certain kinds of societies. First test was to address the nature of human nature. Have to clarify the nature of human nature. As a result of ignorance of error, we misinterpret laws. When it comes to human beings, people make decisions as part of a long chain of means and ends. Not all human behaviour is neutral, have moral significance and consequences. At his time, france was in royal absolutism. Accuses hobbes of having left in tact certain social and cultural attributes, i. e. we become warriors by socialization. If we were killers by nature, wouldn"t draft soldiers. Rousseau wants to strip humans down to their original nature, pre-religion,-culture,-society etc. Wants to understand as they were before society, however this is difficult since when were humans ever without society?".
