POLC71H3 Lecture : Lecture 09 - Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Document Summary
Artifice: self-presentation & pity, natural man, the change, origins, distinction. ~~~~~~~~the middle: property, the trick, amour-propre vs. amour de soi, rousseau comes along and asks what are you paying for? . When wealth is so concentrated, what are we getting: locke mentions that such inequalities are just and fine in the system whereas rousseau says that is not the case, nature vs. Nature: these traits are something we developed in the artifice something we have developed over thousands of years, whereas in the state of nature we are very different, self-preservation & pity. In the state of nature there are two drivers: driver for self-preservation. we want to preserve ourselves and survive. they lookout for themselves but also, like other animals, naturally feel pity and sympathy: driver for sympathy or pity. the tears we shed when we hear someone cry in agony, the pity you feel, is part of human nature.
