SOCB42H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Commodification, Torpor, Labour Power
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Government protect natural liberty via armies, justice, and public works and institutions: we have societies/people connected through division of labour and will never meet one another. Need for armies and justice, summarized: people who are trained for war, even though there is no war, we need system of justice. Have order that are applied equally to everyone: why is there a system, when we should be free, but to have government to protect us. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and general becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. For example, they will have no opinions when it comes to a sewage problem. They will lose the ability to be a good family member, friend and citizen. ) Public education is necessary: to be supported by government and fees. Women of his day are educated on what they are required to perform (as home workers, conversations)
