HIST 121 Study Guide - Final Guide: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Morality must be determined by ourselves, not religion. Authority is necessary; can sill be free under authority. Keep chrisian morals, but leave out the religious side of things. Laws of nature govern us; ater enlightenment, we are objects of behaviour directed by natural law. Proposed an educaion system that follows human development. Emile is rousseau"s philosophical work about his ideal educaion system. Only enter a social contract with a moral person. The role of the social contract is to govern the best interests of the people. General will: uilitarianism government must do what beneits the most people. The state is just a war of all against all. Man has three interests: diidence, glory, compeiion. Commonwealth is built out of its ciizens, with the monarch at the head; this is the leviathan. Life, liberty and property are your naturally given rights. A social contract takes away your rights, except these three rights.
