SOAN 2111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Catharine Macaulay, Montesquieu, Radical Feminism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2111
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

Find a social order whose laws were in greatest harmony with the fundamental laws of nature. Natural man is peaceful, social man is warlike. Social contract enables individuals to be absorbed into the common general will without losing his own will. Rousseau believed that there were biological differences that made men superior to women. (can be compared to wollstonecraft) Rousseau believed in embracing emotions and being more in tune with feelings. Very concerned with the faults of society and the aristocracy. Society makes us go against our human nature and makes us greedy in order to get ahead. The only individual who is free within society is the king. Enlightenment thinker but more interested in emotion than reason. Believed that reason wasn"t the solution of social problems. Emotions and empathy towards others would get society to a better place. Refers to primitive man as natural virtues of humanity.