PHILOS 2G03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Extrajudicial Punishment, Proletariat, African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968)
6 Mar 2018
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Focused on revolution as a form of political change: it is a fundamental change in a political organization. The enlightenment = a time where humanity was vastly progressing. He belied that the advancement of science and art caused corruption. By nature, humans are peaceful, content and equal: it is the cultivation of societies progress that causes inequality competition and egotism. The nature of the human being (before entering into society) To look at human kinds nature and intentions, we cannot look at historical books or anything man-made we must look in nature (nature never lies, unlike man) If we removed everything that makes us civilized, we can understand the natural human being. Rousseau believes that if we strip man of all his possession and artificial faculties he gained in society, we can see that the human being is still the most organized and complex creature of them all.
