Discuss Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Second Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract. Focus on the following:
How humans, once they started to become domesticated, began to acquire evils;
How the rise of the idea of property affected human life;
How the social contract was a trick and how man, though being born free, ended up in “chains”;
How Rousseau’s proposed new social contract proposes to enable us to live freely under government, with a focus on:
The association of all that is to be created;
The “general will,” how it differs from people voting based on self-interest, and what needs to be done so that the people are able to govern in accordance with the “general will”;
How people are “forced to be free” when they’re forced to obey the general will
Conclude with your assessment of Rousseau at you think of his overall thought. Feel more than welcome to be critical of his ideas (some of you perceptively noted dangers in his vision of an absolute democracy, (and if you wish, you’re welcome to comment on other things as well, such as his view of the state of nature or other things in our excerpt). But also, even if you fundamentally degree with his big picture, what values does he express that might be good for a society to strive toward?
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