SOC SCI H1F Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Negative Liberty, Positive Liberty, Academic Freedom
29 Jan 2019
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As part of society are forced to will the general will but that is freedom. Rousseau does not believe in representative government since sees it as citizens are only free at the time of election & then decision-making is taken over by those who are elected. Man is born free & yet people are chained as part of society. In social contract loses natural liberty & gains civil liberty (proprietary ownership of what he possesses) Natural liberty is both natural right & ability to take anything that he can take. Gets civil liberty with development of civil society. Behavior that was forced upon us (potty training, brushing teeth) has become basic to our very understanding of freedom. Moral liberty: obeying a law prescribed for ourselves. Natural liberty, civil liberty, & moral liberty -> very different from locke"s view. Once part of civil society have civil liberty -> becomes a constant. Highest form of liberty that rousseau discusses.
