POLS 2900 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ope

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2900
• Professor: Stephen Newman

Document Summary

Rousseau human nature is always evolving, we developed different passions through socializations- its progression and always changing. Marx species being- producing freely that you are putting your labor into something that is part of yourself. Human beings ability to labor freely and creatively. Rousseau establishes that man is at first a good person but due to natural evolution he becomes more egocentric. Rousseau view of human changing through time- the social contract he mentions that we need to protect our natural liberty but we can approximate it through civil liberty. If human nature changes and we lost your natural liberty: 3) & 4) -both locke and rousseau open up to mills critique. Marx critique of capitalism can also be read a critique to locke. Look at how each thinker views the state of nature, modifies how they view the social contract. Hobbes state of nature, everyone wants to exit the state of nature- seek peace.