SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mary Wollstonecraft, Pope Francis, French Revolution
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Hobbes argued that a central authority is required to keep society in place: social contract: people able to get on with their lives without fear. Rousseau"s rebuttal: he argues that in state of nature , humans are isolated, indifferent to each other, he strips the attributes that are there because of society, down to the core of nature. He argues in state of nature, you do not have society, or power in the same way. This is due to population growth, labor, emerging into social inequality: with emerges of social inequality, it"s under those conditions that hobbes seems to be describing. It"s not social contract that makes this possible, rather it"s the society. To criticize institutions in an evaluative way, to construct reasonable ground. His attempt was to provide a blueprint on how to raise children, adulthood in order to benefit the society.
