POL320Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: John Locke, Leviathan, Social Contract
12 Dec 2016
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A moment of human happiness but lost in time. Rousseau gives us a path to political thought through feelings as well as logic. Ill effects of modernity: physically, psychologically, socially, economically, politically: modern man is more sick, weaker. Always trying to outdo each other, it is how we build our self esteem. Idea of invisible hand (economics) is not to the benefit for all, it means that social benefits are uneven and not on basis of efforts but on their inherited wealth: politically: in a pathological state. Institution of government sevres the status quo and not all. Final and most important nail in the industrial complex coffin, it aids those who are economically well off. Natural man breathes only liberty, civilized man is tormented and uneasy. Rou was driven by ideal: striving for something beyond the problems he outlines in modern society.
