PAPM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Theocracy
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For the essay: send him intro to possibly get feedback. Don"t take a side in the essay objective is to better understand the text, not to prove that one is better or another. Perception that anyone who doesn"t vote has failed being a citizen. Once one person has said that, it"s not that they failed as a citizen, the state should be considered lost. The life of a free person is not that of a person always following that. Security of possession from living in society, moral freedom. Natural freedom in social contract, can"t have civil freedom in state of nature. By entering the social nature, you trade natural freedom for civil and moral freedom. When you enter one, you perform two roles: member of the sovereign and also a citizen. As a member of the sovereign, you give laws to yourself as a citizen. But we don"t agree on the same things .