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Submitted by missmys on June 9, 2008
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General will comes with unified purpose.
It’s very hard to convince these individuals of a general will.
So, he turns to the legislator.
He goes back to the notion of a law giver. Like sovereigns and founders.
Set up the institutions so that we’re educated to see the general will.
We have to have the general will but also the particular wills.
(If the law giver is something like Machiavelli’s prince)
Virtu is to recognize opportunities.
Hobbes doesn’t believe in virtu or fortuna.
Rousseau wants us to look at the past rationally.
Machiavelli thinks that you can acquire all knowledge from the past. Past oriented. But now with Rousseau, you get a new mindset of the past. It changes the ethos of the western world.
The past is going to be looked at as a collective histories.
Histories is made up discreet events. Unique events. Events that can’t be duplicated.
We see our history as progress.
Liberate the yolk of the past because we’re technically part of the past in the future. We should surpass the ancients and not that they are better than us. How can the beginning be so great. The beginning is never so great. The future won’t be a repetition of the past. It’ll be something different and better.
Page 41, introduction to Kent.
I don’t care how you envision the freedom of will because the actions come from will are embodied in the material will. The world of phenomenon. The cause and effect. These actions are determined by natural will. We can understand them.
Freely will actions.
Since we can look at them from natural laws maybe we can find some regular pattern to them. If you look at large enough scale, all of human history, you can find that it is regulated through a natural law, the natural...
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