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(R finds man in the SoN as much like any other animal, motivated by…

- - - - Instead, R depicts a series of "chance coming together of several unconnected causes" such as language,
  - - - But through customs and conventions generate a moral competition between individuals in society, with individuals beginning to look at others and want to be looked at themselves, generating public esteem p73
      - R posits our conventions generate "vanity and contempt on the one hand, and shame and envy on the other" concluding that from "the fermentation caused by these new leavens eventually produced compounds fatal to happiness and innocence" p73
      - AP alone is not enough to create unfreedom, rather the mores generated by it provide a source for unfreedom insofar as they create corrupted systems of dependence
      - we're all locked in the struggle for amour propre and esteem. we all want to be seen in the eyes of others
      - R is drawing our attention to a new psychological need for humans, one we didn’t have in our original state, one anothers affirmation, respect, and esteem (lec three)
- - - - by dint of seeing one another, they can no longer get along without seeing one another again p73
      - To R, we do not have fixed moral natures, rather it is our social norms and mores that fix our moral nature
- - - - p8 is it because liberty in the abstract may be classed among the blessings of mankind, that I am seriously to facilitate a madman?
      - Liberty is the good, but it is not the only good. We must balance liberty w/ other goods. A manly, regulated liberty, is one that balances liberty w/ other goods
        
        other goods: liberty, morality, religion, solidity of property, peace and order, civil and social manners
      - value pluralism
        
        Pure negative liberty would lead to us invading all rights of one another
        
        In order for freedom to be good, it must be balanced
        
        They had freedom in the FR, but because it was not balanced against other goods, it was, in effect, no longer a good— it was destructive of all other values
        
        Starting over w/ a tabula rosa is a profoundly dangerous path
        
        Manners are a mediating institution to Burke— a limit on freedom. Social respectability and self restraint, manners customs etc, are restraints on the passions that underpin liberty
- - - - moves from a critique of mores as undermining moral liberty and generating unfreedom in the DoI, to a position that mores can ultimately x
      - the lawgiver, the censor, can guide mores to a less individualistic and atomizing direction
        
        mores undermine moral liberty political society, but for a political society that is already corrupt mores hold the potential to ameliorate such corruption through careful guidance of the lawgiver.
    - - experience is not enough for R, he argues that "the legislator should not base his judgement on what he sees but on what he foresees
      - though both agree that once customs and mores are established, it is dangerous to reform them p184 R