SOAN 2111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: State Of Nature, System On A Chip
20 Apr 2016
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Know- state of nature and his social contract. The perfectibility of man, his freedom, happiness & increasing mastery of his own fate depended on clear understanding laws of nature. Believed that nature & soc worked according to such laws believed society could also depart from the requirements of its natural law. Act to their nature by estab. a social order that violates their basic nature. Rousseau"s objective find a social order who"s laws were in greatest harmony with fundamental lows of nature. If one could determine how men departed from their natural condition and how they imposed themselves a social order perhaps one could know hwo to change that order and replace it with better. Natural man divested of what he has acquired in society. Can observe in natural habitat gain insight into natural behavior uninfluenced by society. Deduce factors implied by mans social development (lang think them away)
