Political Science 2237E Lecture 33: Day 33 - Rousseau
26 Sep 2018
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Rousseau on human nature: original state of nature, savage society, civilized society, for him, france was the ultimate civilized society, but civil society also has many things wrong with it, social contract society, better than civilized society. Hobbes and locke both point towards the idea that humans are blank slates. Hobbes also says people are like pieces of paper that the sovereign will write on. On the scale between nature and nurture, they would be kind of in the middle. Rousseau laughs at ho(cid:271)(cid:271)es" (cid:448)ie(cid:449) of hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s i(cid:374) the state of (cid:374)ature. Rousseau says hobbes is not describing people in state of nature, people are not naturally like that. This is how they are in civilized society; society makes them like this. Rousseau says (cid:449)e are fu(cid:374)da(cid:373)e(cid:374)tally differe(cid:374)t, ho(cid:271)(cid:271)es" pro(cid:271)le(cid:373) is that he looks at how the humans around him are and assumes they are always like that.
