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Choose one question and write 4 page essay that argues your answer.
Remember: These are only prompts, they are designed to help you focus on a problem or concept but you shouldn?t feel compelled to answer any/all of the specific questions that are asked. Instead, use them to begin your own thinking, but what I?m expecting is an original argument of your own, that grows out one of these prompts. What do you think about what our thinkers have to say about one of these problems/concepts?
No outside research is needed. Proper footnoting is required. Read and re-read the text. Think about your answer before you write. Back up your interpretation with material from text ? Rousseau Jean-Jacques, Basic Political Writings, Hackett Publishers
1) Does civilization make us soft? Explain with reference to Rousseau.
2) Why doesn?t Rousseau think we can return to the state of nature? Why doesn?t he want us to?
3) ?The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.? (Inequality) What is Rousseau saying about property? What else might this argument be true for? What are the consequences for our political lives?
4) ?Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. He who believes himself the master of others does not escape being more of a slave than they?. (Social Contract) Rousseau seems to be saying that masters are slaves even more then are their own slaves. What might he mean? What does this say about what Rousseau believes lies at the heart of slavery?
5) Why isn?t Rousseau?s concept of the general will an example of the tyranny of the majority? Or is it?
6) If Rousseau recognizes that we cannot return to nature, why does he spend so much time using nature to criticize society? Outside of using nature as a rhetorical device to criticize, what is its positive political contribution?
7) What is the difference between self-love and selfishness? Explain, with reference to Rousseau.
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