Critique of Rousseau’s Social Contract, part 15
This week we’re finishing Book 3, taking a look at Chapters 16-18. Rousseau spends a lot of time building up these weird word games that give the same thing multiple names in order to give it a veneer of legitimacy, but he doesn’t retract any of his previous ideas about the unlimited power of the State or the duty of a State’s people to preserve it, both of which lead to major negative incentives which Rousseau conveniently ignores.
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Usually, these weird definitions and re-definitions are used by shysters to convince people that there is a method behind the madness of an oppressive State, and Rousseau is no innovator in that place.
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Intro quote by Patrick Henry, from his remarks on June 5, 1788:
https://www.redhill.org/speeches-writings/liberty-or-empire/
Intro music by Zakhar Valaha, courtesy Pixabay:
https://pixabay.com/users/good_b_music-22836301/
Thumbnail image made with Scrabalize:
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