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(Rousseau, Burke) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 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
    - - 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)
      - 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
      - R nevertheless refuses to draw the conclusion that AP is necessarily a (rousseau word), instead hinting at the possibility for AP to embody a (R word). This project of properly guiding AP is illustrated in the SC and shall be briefly touched on below.
  - - - what distinguishes man from animal is our faculty of self-preservation, or perfectability.
        
        This allows us to develop and change in response to our circumstances p53. additionally, our perfectibility leads to the creation of new needs and dependencies lec. 3
        
        However, perfectibility alone is insufficient to explain mans trajectory out of the SoN and into conditions of unfreedom and inequality p55
        
        Instead, R depicts a series of "chance coming together of several unconnected causes" such as language, which propel, and perhaps, condemn human's to a social existence
- - - - 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