Rousseau believed that Locke and Hobbes tried but failed to examine mankind in this condition.
What is the state of nature?
100
Rousseau believes that natural man shares this important trait with animals.
What is pity, or compassion.
100
For Hobbes, pride is a natural human trait. For Rousseau, it comes from ___________ .
What is society?
100
This collective will is not merely the sum of all the individual wills.
What is the general will?
200
Published in 1775, Rousseau's Second Discourse is also know by this title.
What is the Discourse on Inequality.
200
Where Hobbes sees the state of war as a state of nature, Rousseau believes that the state of war as a state of ____ .
What is society?
200
Rousseau gives this name to the trait of valuing one's self over others, and expecting to be likewise valued by others.
What is amour-propre?
200
The lecturer used this contemporary controversy as an example of an injury to a group's sense of amour propre.
What was the Danish cartoon controversy?
200
Hobbes's and Locke's freedom could be called libertarian. Rousseau's freedom could be called _________ .
What is republican?
300
This is the name of Rousseau's most important work of political philosophy.
What is The Social Contract?
300
Rousseau believes that natural man lacks this ability, which is traditionally believed to be what separates man from other animals.
What is speech or reason?
300
For Rousseau, the worst aspect of poverty and inequality is the lack of ___________ .
What is esteem, (respect, recognition, etc.)
300
Rousseau's concern for inequality makes him somewhat similar to this later thinker, who was more concern with the material aspects of inequality.
Who is Karl Marx?
300
Under Rousseau's social contract, natural freedom is replaced with ________ _________ .
What is moral freedom, or civic freedom, or citizen freedom?
400
Rousseau wrote a constitution for this country.
What is Poland, (or Corisica).
400
This is the capacity which Rousseau believes sets human beings apart from animals.
What is freedom? (Or free agency, or openness to change.)
400
This is a Rousseau's basic description of pity.
What is distress at seeing the suffering of a member of one's own species?
400
According to the lecturer, Rousseau's belief in the human species' ability to change over time means that this could have been an alternative title for "The Second Discourse".
What is "The Origin of Species" ?
400
Rousseau upholds the Spartan mother described by Plutarch as an example of this quality, which he believes modern society has lost.
What is citizenship, or patriotism, or being a citizen or a patriot?
500
Rousseau lived during a time of transition between these two periods of intellectual history.
What are the Enlightenment and Romanticism?
500
According to Rousseau, human freedom/free agency suggests that human nature can transform itself as circumstances change. He calls this capacity __________ .
What is perfectibility?
500
Amour propre is not merely negative. The desire for respect and recognition is also at the root of our desire for ______.
What is justice?
500
Amour propre comes into existence as soon as we are aware of this.
What is the gaze of others--or the esteem or estimation of others.
500
Those who do not obey the general will must be ______ ______ _______ ________ .