ILS 206 : Rousseau 2nd lecture

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Integrated Liberal Studies
• Course: ILS 206
• Professor: All

Document Summary

This means merely that he will be forced to be free. (434). Rousseau"s problem i: man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. He who believes himself the master of others does not escape being more of a slave than they. Locke: protecting property (life, liberty and estate, that is) This means merely that he will be forced to be free. (p. 434). Good rousseau sounds like a democrat envisioning a people bound by common good. Bad rousseau subordinates the individual to the community, which gives up true freedom. Rousseau"s sovereign: sovereignty is merely the exercise of the general will. (436, defines sovereignty as pursuing the common good. In one sense similar to hobbes, but rousseau says it only exists in line w/ general will: always correct: the sovereign, by the mere fact that it exists, is always all that it should be. (433)