POLS 250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Moral Agency, James Mill, Speciesism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 250
• Professor: Colin Farrelly

Document Summary

The society replaces love of self with self-love (greed, vanity, pride) Discourse on origins of inequality: 2 types of inequality. Natural inequality- inevitable, of the body and mind we can"t go back to the state of nature no that we are out of it solution to natural inequality is general will. Moral/political inequality- not natural, must be explained and justified major cause of corruption is private property rousseau"s ideal government is aristocracy (democracy divides society) Arts and science associated with greed and curiosity and therefor are corrupting. If the authority is legitimate, the sovereign will = the general will. Come from all: the people must be the author of the law to be both free and governed. Apply to all: no one may be above the law. Being compelled to obey the general will- like alarm clock: forces you to do what your best-self wishes we can"t give in to the particular will (selfish, greedy)