POLS 250 Study Guide - Final Guide: Amour-Propre, Man Man, Civilized Man

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 250
• Professor: Andrew D Lister

Document Summary

Reading: discourse on the origin of inequality, part i. Reading: discourse on the origin of inequality, part ii; social contract: book i, ch. Reading: constant, on the liberty of the moderns compared with that of the ancients ; Week 7/ half of week 8 rousseau 1 discourses on the origin of inequality. Rousseau - desirable to get back to a primitive life (though it is impossible) We see in the social contract is public society, first genuine society (in respect to men) Doesn"t think we can abolish private property and the state, therefore can"t go back to that state, therefore the feasible alternative is a democratic society/republic as he will call it. Natural state in the state of nature. State of nature is state we were in prior to the influence of culture of any social institutions - check page 169 and 175. What is original and artificial in the nature of man.