Our first day of discussion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "The Social Contract," in which we focus on Book I.
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@iBEEMproject3 ай бұрын
As a political science this is my first appreciation of rousseau
@stefaniamendez67813 жыл бұрын
My instructor is teaching the same exact material but with no enthusiasm, direction or structure. What a difference the professor can make! I hated my class and was falling behind until I found your videos! Thank you, so helpful!
@ahmednuru77884 жыл бұрын
that was a brilliant lecturer . i enjoyed to the end that seemed so quick although i watched and paused for a whole day am looking forward to your lessons
@madeleinedierksheide4 жыл бұрын
starts at 14:00 minutes
@diariesofagrowingcaramelqu66654 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much
@julie56684 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Madeline. I am the same with films, if there's a big intro or the credits roll first, I have to fast forward!
@luisvasquez8125 жыл бұрын
Ty so much wherever you are !!!
@quagapp Жыл бұрын
As well as the Social Contract but his 'Confessions' is fascinating and thus he influenced Proust and other writers and also was more toward Romanticism (than say Diderot, D'Alambert, Grimm or Hume). Rousseau was increasingly paranoid especially after he published Emile (which he considered his best work) and the Social Contract. He used to some extent the model of the Roman Rebulic, rejected democracy and probably knew that his Contract between The People and a Sovereign, the people. He was more 'intuitive' than a logician per se, Hobbes knew mathematics and unlike Rousseau (who did study maths but was interested in composing music, and he wrote at least one short opera). He is in some ways an early modernist and an early Romantic. A man of feeling. Derrida finds some aporia in his e.g. 'The Origins of Language' but that like Plato's Republic is so leaky one could drive a philosophic truck through it. So if Derrida failed to find thousands of contradictions in R's writing it would be surprising....Wittgenstein and perhaps Hume (not Locke the Empiricist) were men who questioned things. Was Wittgenstein ugly? He had a great magnetism -- but Popper (also from Vienna and Jewish) wrote many books trying to solve problems. I think Wittgenstein rightly realised such enthusiasm was futile and found learning and questioning more interesting. Like R. though he was interested in language but didn't "lay down the law". I'm not a lecturer or a student, I am a 74 year old writer-poet living in New Zealand, and I read a lot....probably too much....
@Lonpone2 жыл бұрын
"Locke...uuuuugh! Rousseau..." Dude cracked me up.
@GeoffreyGraham25 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the upload am working on a research essay
@hms95203 жыл бұрын
Does Rousseau say anything about the role of leaders in creating general will?
@adamrosenfeld93842 жыл бұрын
See The Social Contract, Book II, Ch 7 on "The Law-Giver/Maker."
@johnmartin28136 жыл бұрын
Didn't Sartre say something like 'we are forced to be free' as if it were a matter of regret? 'Mankind is condemned to freedom' perhaps.
@arpanasingh87902 жыл бұрын
It would have been more resource dil if the view points of the students be sufi le clearly
@marieconstant64524 жыл бұрын
COMPARAISON SIR = BIBLE SOCIAL
@danksamosa39524 жыл бұрын
Did he just call Hume, an Englishman? unacceptable
@adamrosenfeld93842 жыл бұрын
My humble apologies! Just to set the record straight, Hume was/is Scottish!
@conneralford61223 жыл бұрын
I’m an instructor myself and this video helped me to structure my own lecture. Thank you.
@tagtek203 жыл бұрын
Same here !
@runthomas2 жыл бұрын
actual social contract starts at 14:00
@samouk454336 жыл бұрын
Where does this genius teach? Much better than some professors at Columbia...
@alexfrench54753 жыл бұрын
University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
@EmSpiration5 жыл бұрын
I have an alaytical paper due and did not understand rousseau at all. This is helping a lot! Thank you, you're a really good professor.
@karzanmuhammed2362 Жыл бұрын
I am watching your lectures from Iraqi Kurdistan. I like it. Thanks
@dereksyroka62885 жыл бұрын
Impressive lecture. Your students engage very well. I'm seeing better interaction with discussions about the philosophy of law then the letter of law like court decisions, statutory and constitutional scripts of law.
@jaydrmr6 жыл бұрын
I would love to have you as a teacher
@edgeplay4205 Жыл бұрын
Forced to be free - for examples look at the treatment of homosexuality. Conversion therapists can call on Rousseau, but we now know that this is not what we want (general will), How legislatures vote for such stuff is hugely variable, even within a single family unit. The general will could be regarded as those laws which are passed unanimously. Rousseau wrote for money. Boswell reports Johnson's assessment of Rousseau, Johnson asked Rousseau whether he really believed everything he had written. Johnson must have nailed Rousseau with the well-known metaphysical concepts, noble savage, free-will, general good and seen that Rousseau's story does not hang together. While there is great European interest in the noble savage Indians of America, there is also learning about the savages of the Pacific. Johnson disdains this element of global discovery saying savages have nothing to offer Europeans. Johnson apparently had a more realistic view of savages than Rousseau's fantasy savages. Under this pressure Rousseau admits to Johnson that he writes because his readership likes this kind of material. But this means that there must have been revolutionary tendencies in France for some time before the Revolution, and even before Rousseau published. Contract and Compact and two separate things. The Contract is what each individual makes with the State. The Compact is what the State is currently offering, which can change with time. You see that these two can diverge. The compact goes on, possibly quite changed after a revolution, but the state expects that each individual contract is still intact. We can also consider the life that Jews had to live in European cities of the era. How plausible is it that people will give up their individual freedom to support the common will ? This is dodgy in theory but practical in the implementation. Consider NZ PM Ardern saying that NZ's team of 5 million will get through COVID. This happened, but in time American Libertarians polluted the social discourse and created a reactionary schizm.
@sanctus70496 жыл бұрын
I'm going to a community college and the curriculum in my courses is garbage. I've taken to reading old books by great thinkers to attempt to compliment my studies. Videos such as this are unlikely to get the views they deserve, but I appreciate the upload and have found it helpful.
@matthewwhiteside58084 жыл бұрын
Keep you in the loop as to 3 A few minutes to talk to you about it when I get home from work until you get back home I will call me real estate exam is scheduled on it for me because it's 2 Ok cool I'll let you have it all ready
@runthomas2 жыл бұрын
not much information , more just a kids class having a laugh...not very much content for those who want intellectual stimulation.
@runthomas2 жыл бұрын
most of talk is regarding how good looking rousseau was. and how ugly hobbes was
@manuelvarela20722 жыл бұрын
This lecture was really helpful and I really appreciated it as a precursor to reading Book 1. One thing was missed in the brief discussion of his importance in philosophy of education which I feel is warranted. And that is Rousseau's rejection of education for women and his view of women's role in the family in general. I feel that while there's many good things to say about Rousseau's philosophy, it is also important to point out the flaws.
@juliantreidiii3 жыл бұрын
To have that kind of Gov. it would require a Gov. by people who were intelligent, educated (not necessarily schooled) , and who had worked as the laboring class, who were committed to solving problems and using consensus, so they need to look at the big picture and familiar with the specific.
@michaelaureliusrose30643 жыл бұрын
Well done!!!! Roussou x x
@txpyro18854 жыл бұрын
I can't take Rousseau serious because I started with The Confessions. :/
@moehersk78086 жыл бұрын
voltaire later invited rousseau to live with him but rousseau didnt respond and later deeply regreted it.
@clementine78873 жыл бұрын
you are amazying and better than Yale
@yazanasad78113 жыл бұрын
I feel like a Dr pepper 😂
@arpanasingh87902 жыл бұрын
Resourceful
@SoldierBoy694204 жыл бұрын
Thanks.
@ghgh4895 жыл бұрын
What Rousseau means by everywhere is chain is in society we become dependent on each other to realise our ends.This material interdependent but It is also related to the ideas of amour proper. We live the life through each other's judgements, through each other's gaze. We are dependent each other's respect and when we don't get that we become miserable...
@MrLethivic5 жыл бұрын
Why not a course on Burke ?
@adamrosenfeld93845 жыл бұрын
Sadly, one semester isn't enough to cover every philosopher of this period. Any treatment of the history of philosophy makes decisions about how to tell the story of the conversations happening in some era of thought. I'm sure there are plenty of videos of lectures on Burke out there.
@plasmaballs937 жыл бұрын
sound dies at 13 mins in
@plasmaballs937 жыл бұрын
comes back in a minute
@Shitgotmegeekin2 жыл бұрын
Aristotle and his disciples were somewhat obsessed with their looks, but other than that most philosophers aren’t the most handsome of men (or women). But I’d argue Nietzsches moustache made him the most handsome.
@Shitgotmegeekin2 жыл бұрын
Also, great video. Loved book 1 of the social contract, looking forward to the remaining books.