midterm review ROUSSEAU

natural inequality

• biological impairments

• health, age, strength

state of nature

• goodness and uniformity

• men are equal

artificial inequality

• wealth, power, honor, property

security

• illusion

• people shouldn’t give up their freedoms in exchange for security

animals

• ingenius machines

• act on intuition and impulse

• limited progression

• natural compassion

man in natural state

• superior to modern man

• advantageous

• less sickness

• would beat modern man

modern man

• weak

• industrialization

• increased sickness, self inflicted

• without machines would lose to savage man

self perfection

man has unlimited progression

moral side of man

• ability to talk

• speech

• natural pity

• thought and reason

private property

• foundation of civil society

• evil, greed, competition

• inequality begins here

early society

• in between civil and savage

• comparison arises

• paternal love

• conjugal love

• community

government

• rich propose laws to preserve peace

• poor are tricked into giving up their rights

• institution of oppression

social contract

• implicit agreement

• surrender rights

• states obligations

• people are the ultimate source of power

tyranny

• government is hereditary and absolute

• despotism 

• one person rules all

Rousseau’s opinion on Hobbes state of nature

Hobbes projected civil society onto state of nature

we were better off before philosophy bc…

• had natural compassion in the state of nature

• compassion is worth more than our rational debates