RQ 33-39
Rousseau defines the word miserable as this.
What is a painful privation and suffering of the body or the soul?
Fill in the blanks: "the moral aspect of love is an __________ ______________ born of __________ __________________."
What is artificial sentiment and social custom?
What is a horse/steed?
Fill in the blanks: " Moreover, citizens allow themselves to be oppressed only insofar as they are driven by _________________ _____________________."
What is "blind ambition"?
These are the two aspects of love.
What are physical and moral?
Rousseau believes that men are born good or evil.
What is neither?
This is when conflict over women is more destructive.
What is in society?
Rousseau quotes this "wise and good [French] monarch".
Who is Louis XIV?
These men only enjoy things to the extent that others are deprived of them.
Who are rich and powerful men?
This is an incontestable and fundamental maxim of all political right.
What is the idea that men join under rulers to preserve their liberty and not to enslave themselves?
Fill in the blank: "So much more __________ to these is the _______________ of vice than the _____________ of _____________ is to those."
What is profitable, ignorance, knowledge, and virtue?
This is when men are more similar.
What is in society?
This is "the most noble of man's faculties".
In the final stage of inequality, this renders all private individuals equal again.
What is the return to a new state of nature?
One decides this if they call the child of a slave a slave.
What is a man is not born free?
This makes men more than just monsters.
What is pity?
This "renders pointless the law of the strongest" in the state of nature.
What is pity?
This is what Rousseau defines as "two parties [obligating] themselves to observe the laws... the form the bonds of the union."
What is a true contract?
The people can kill a king when this happens.
What is when he harms the people?
The various forms of government mirror individuals.
What is monarchy arises from one rich man, aristocracy arises from a group of wealthy men, democracy from those closest to the state of nature.
This takes the place of "laws, mores, and virtue" in the state of nature.
What is pity?
This belongs to history.
What are facts?
These are the three revolutions of inequality that Rousseau describes as stages.
What are 1. establishment of laws and property rights, 2. institution of the magistracy, and 3. legitimate power transforms to arbitrary power?
The only way that a civilized man knows how to live.
What is in the opinion of others?
This makes slavery ineffective in the state of nature.
It is too inconvenient for the master, and the slave is free to leave.