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He reads Rousseau's social contract as a theory in which people surrender individual freedom to society only in order to become more free through the general will.
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He reads Rousseau's social contract as a theory in which people surrender individual freedom to society only in order to become more free through the general will.
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The Rousseau passage read aloud claims that renouncing liberty is incompatible with human nature and destroys morality, rights, duties, and reciprocal obligation.
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Jiang interprets Rousseau as saying freedom is given by God, connects humans to God, and cannot be surrendered without surrendering humanity.
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The Rousseau passage treats population growth as the surest sign that a political association preserves and prospers its members.
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He defines Rousseau's general will as a substitute for God: a collective abstraction that expresses the best of humanity and gives legitimacy to government and law.
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Rousseau's social contract supplies the Enlightenment route to nationalism: individuals form a general will, government serves that will, and the French Revolution implements it as the nation-state.
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Jiang treats Rousseau's critique of Christianity and republican citizenship as an origin of separation of church and state in the French Republic.
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The first British-European Enlightenment difference is anthropology: Locke's blank slate versus Rousseau's and Kant's belief in innate goodness and natural reason.
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"...main architect of the French Revolution, his name is Jean -Jacques Rousseau, he was not French, he was actually Swiss. But he's important because..."
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"...go to Pizza Hut, and that's just democracy. For Jean -Jacques Rousseau, this is not a good system. Because we should strive to be..."
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"To renounce your liberty is to renounce your status as a man, your rights as a human being, and even your duties as a..."
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"And it doesn't make sense to speak my right against myself."
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"Okay, so the argument is this. Our freedom is given to us by God. Our freedom is what connects us to God. So our..."
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"I'm continually astonished that such a simple sign of good government isn't recognized, or perhaps men do recognize it but aren't honest enough to..."
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"...the Spanish okay then you have another theorist named John Jacques Rousseau and this theory is different okay it's also social contract theory but..."
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"expression of the best of who we are okay do you understand so by ourselves we're fine okay when we come together we create..."
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"my people but the other 50 percent would live will be happy they'll live in Paradise you can't do that okay because you cannot..."
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"...to the enlightenment thinkers okay so from the enlightenment we have Rousseau and Rousseau remember wrote a book called called the social contract and..."
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"...for the people okay he is just reiterating the idea of Rousseau okay and this of course is implemented by the french revolution right..."
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"...that. Okay? Does that make sense? Great. All right. Jean -Jacques Rousseau, we talked about. We're just going to read a couple sentences from..."
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