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16. Mai 2023 · Hobbes created the state of nature, the condition in which people live before the establishment of the civil state, as the civil state’s polar opposite. In its purest form the state of nature represents savagery, constant danger of violent death, and moral uncertainty, while the civil state represents a life of security, civilization, comfort ...
Locke believed that individuals in a state of nature would be bound morally, by the Law of Nature, not to harm each other in their lives or possessions, but without government to defend them against those seeking to injure or enslave them, people would have no security in their rights and would live in fear. Locke argued that individuals would agree to form a state that would provide a ...
For Rousseau, the state of nature is relatively peaceful, but a social contract becomes necessary to overcome conflicts that inevitably arise as society grows and individuals become dependent on others to meet their needs. However, uniquely in Rousseau’s account, the authority of the state is not inherently in conflict with the free will of individuals, because it represents the collective ...
31. Mai 2023 · His famous reconstruction of a pre-historical state of nature characterised by solitude and sufficiency serves to preclude recourse to supposedly natural or ‘innate’ conceptions of a general interest or a common good (Rousseau, 1997a). In the rare cases where one exists, a common interest shared by a gathering of people can only arise as something that they themselves have deliberately ...
Rousseau favoured popular sovereignty, which he achieved by empowering the people. Only through entering into the social contract and exercising popular sovereignty, according to Rousseau, can people achieve civic liberty. According to him, the social contract was made between people acting in their individual capacities and persons acting in their corporate capacities. Rousseau means that ...
In different works, Rousseau alternately emphasizes the benefits and shortfalls of the state of nature, but by and large he reveres it for the physical freedom it grants people, allowing them to be unencumbered by the coercive influence of the state and society. In this regard, Rousseau’s conception of the state of nature is entirely more positive than Hobbes’s conception of the same idea ...
Against Rousseau offers valuable insights into the evolution of Maistre's counter-revolutionary ideas during the crucial years of 1792-97 and illustrates his remarkable insights into society and politics. It is vital to any consideration of his thought or the counter-revolutionary movement in eighteenth-century France.
