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Rousseau Social Contract Flashcards

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Right and Interest

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  • Right to life
  • Interest prescribes we don’t kill
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Acting Justly

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  • Motivated to do so by self-interest
  • Find ways for laws to align with self-interest
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First Societies

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  • Family is the origin
  • When self-sufficient we choose to observe obligations
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Right of the Strongest

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  • We never choose force
  • Force stops being power when the threat goes away
  • Obedience is only out of necessity
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Slavery

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  • Force without right justice
  • No one would choose slavery, if is chosen it cannot be inherited
  • Consent has to be explicit, obedience is not consent
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Despotism and Locke

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  • R says there’s no reason early communities consented to despotism
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Golden Age

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  • Original social contract
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Soceital Cooperation

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  • Can’t sustain solitude and become reliant on each other for survival
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Rule of Majority

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  • Problem with SC
  • Need it to protect all but everyone maintains their freedom
  • L, always free just to protect property
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Violation of SC

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  • It dissolves
  • Has to benefit everyone
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SC Involves…

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  • Everyone gives up everything to everyone
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3 Implications

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  • Same conditions so all make it easy for all
  • Individual has no rights in opposition with the state
  • All are equal so no freedom is lost
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Sovereign

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  • Not an office of the people but the people themselves
  • Can’t harm its members as it would harm itself
  • Law to remain loyal to sov
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Self-Interseted Citizens

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  • May be citizens without doing their duty
  • Will be forced to follow the general will and be free
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Positive Obligations

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  • Laws between peoples
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Purpose of the State

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  • Realize self with peers as a common project
  • Slide into inequality without it
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Civil Libery

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  • Living in accordance with the general will as dictated by law
  • Most free
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Property

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  • Can be claimed if unoccupied, not more than needed, and requires labour
  • Disagrees with L about ToC
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General Will of the People

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  • Ensures equality through political institutions
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General Will and Law Making

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  • Interested in common good
  • E.g. healthcare
  • Won’t inform directly (leg will) but will be the spirit behind
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Corpution

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  • Population can be tricked into wanting the bad
  • Once shown their being harmed they’ll reject the bad
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Limits of Sovereign Power

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  • Individual only gives up what is needed for general wellbeing
  • Citizens have private interests, only bound in matters of public interests
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Death Penalty

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  • Only when the person would otherwise harm the SC
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Law

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  • Abstract expression of the general will
  • Made by whole and apply to the whole
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Getting to General Will

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  • People have to be enlightened
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Lawgiver

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  • Founding figure, hard to find
  • Will enforce law but can’t use force, people have to recognize its for their own good
  • Creates authority out of thin air (Big 4)
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Radical Events

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  • Can lead to fissure, allow for change in different beliefs
  • So rare
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Different Beliefs

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  • Once set it is hard to transform them
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Liberty

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  • If given up, it can never been regained
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Population Size

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  • Smaller area
  • Smaller than the ability of the land so there is enough to go around
  • E.g. Corsica where Napoleon was born
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Naturally Talented

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  • Will have to be disciplined
  • Everyone has to commit to moderation
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Solution for Human Nature

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  • There is none because society will always degenerate due to greed
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Legislation

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  • Strive for laws and customs that reflect geography
  • If they do bad, laws will weaken and society will degenerate
  • Political, civil, criminal, and customary laws
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Executive

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  • Power on behalf of the sovereign (legislation)
  • Executes laws after sov creates them
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Form of Government

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  • Doesn’t matter as they are all there to do what the people have set out for
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Republics

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  • All govs are republics if legit
  • All that matters is the laws
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3 Wills

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  • Individual private
  • Sov (gw)
  • Will of gov
  • All will clash so regimes will degenerate

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