PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Totalitarianism, Individual And Group Rights, The Communist Manifesto
8 Nov 2016
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Without the social contract, we would not have anything as sophisticated as rights, which require a government to institute, recognize and enforce. A modification of rousseau-has many of the same rousseauian ideas but is more amendable to the partisans of locke and the partisans of natural right. Central information-why we still want to obtain some insights of rousseau even though we are anti totalitarian and disagree with some of the things that rousseau says. This is defending some of the things rousseau says from a modern vantage point. People become at odds with each other due to the fact that resources are scarce, so a social contract is needed to reduce the antagonism. This doesn"t really stand by itself without other types of claims. Taylor has a historical claim that people will not survive in the wilderness as wolves and as rats and raccoons-human beings dong have the kind of constitution that would allow them to survive in the wilderness.
