POL320Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Social Contract, Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty
12 Dec 2016
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Pol320 - lecture 6 - october 19, 2016. We saw rousseau"s praise of the simple unencumbered life in the second discourse as a way to shed light on the problems of modern condition. No return to natural society called for in on the social contract. Rethinking social and political order for legitimacy, involving consent which is not a sufficient condition since some social contracts based on consent are not legitimate. R suggests it"s neither in your interests to give away ability to say what law is since you don"t know whether those controlling it will be tyrants rather than promoting common good. Even if you agree to it, it throws away capacity to say again, a renunciation of your freedom which you need to exercise faculties of human/moral being. Language of virtue: when citizens go in social contract, their interests seem to be reformed in some degree.
