Core 202: Rousseau "Discourse on Inequality"

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@MpumeleloNtaka 5 ай бұрын

I am a Political Sciences Major from the University of Kwa Zulu Natal , Pietermaritzburg , South Africa. Thank you so so much for this, it is very helpful.

@awonosuafelixaneba2030 2 жыл бұрын

DR. Basenberg you are the best!!!!! we have, I really enjoy your lecture. I now understand J.J Rousseau text after listening to this lecture thankyou so much DR. Lanier.

@lucyroberts5794 Жыл бұрын

this is so helpful! you explain things SO WELL!!

@ericschwarz5908 9 ай бұрын

If by reading this you come to the conclusion that his use of “savage man” is meant to be interpreted in a racist fashion, then you have entirely missed his connotations of the terms savage and civilized in this particular work.

@maryamabid7732 7 ай бұрын

Great video - I missed this class in university so had to watch this to catch up. Thank you!!

@angelalong2234 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much. Very helpful!

@hayleybrown8739 2 жыл бұрын

thank you so much! your lecture was so helpful, i can actually understand the text now! thank you thank you thank you!!!!

@mosesawenab2134 2 жыл бұрын

This video is incredible, thank you madam.

@navadiskaya 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Just loved it

@iasmina7847 3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@Sunfried1 2 жыл бұрын

Good video. My partial disagreement is with Rousseau himself. In my opinion, we have an innate sense of possession, hence a natural notion of ownership. Inequality would have become a chronic problem once our natural inequalities were institutionalized. Once that happened, inequality became entrenched into law. It wasn't so much a case of someone fencing off a piece of property. Inequality became a social problem when property was legalized.

@tysmith9309 2 жыл бұрын

Well we now - have an innate sense of possession. That’s kinda the point - you know 10000 generations from the state of nature. I also have a lot of innate senses that wouldn’t necessarily exist during the times of the state of nature

@tysmith9309 2 жыл бұрын

And there are some interesting anthropological findings that show how inequality worked during pre civilization. Like skeletons with obvious deformations living long lives despite not being able to hunt. Showing that empathy and interchanging roles existed

@andrewrai5752 Жыл бұрын

I think what we think as an “innate sense of possession” is actually more nurture, in the sense it’s acquired rather than instinct

@skullcrusher9873 4 ай бұрын

@@andrewrai5752and rosseau says so too, in the absolutely draining first part of the text. 'Natural savage' is more animal then a human, and his existence stopped once we started to see patterns in nature - then, it was a slow crawl to private property. He goes REALLY back, when we all acted only instinctively and something like concept of 'ownership' was completely alien to us.

@cranejapan12 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video!

@aakashchauhanf7046 Жыл бұрын

Excellent 👍

@jrshipley Жыл бұрын

Rousseau's state of nature might better be understood as an abstract model than an empirical account. Same with Hobbes. Is Hobbes literally a radical psychological egoist. Maybe, but the point is also maybe that even with this extreme assumption we can show how moral norms and legal codes arise. For Rousseau maybe he thinks something like his state of nature existed but maybe it's also just a model to show how social hierarchy and inequality can emerge even from a radically asocial and egalitarian condition.

@TriptiBanai 3 жыл бұрын

really helpful , thankyou

@skrieni 3 жыл бұрын

Why do you disagree with his thoughts about the "savage man" ? When we and the primates went our own way after the common ancestor didnt we live that way actually?

@jennonpress Жыл бұрын

Why? Because she’s not very bright.

@skullcrusher9873 4 ай бұрын

Tbf, i don't think the term 'savage man' could be classifed as racist - his fetishization of native americans is really weird, though. Agree with the antropological critique, primates are - and always were - living in groups. A 'savage' men unbound by seeing patters in nature still could have - and did- live in groups, those two are not complet opposites.

@amitpaul504 3 жыл бұрын

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@owlnyc666 2 жыл бұрын

Rousseau a proto-Marxist? Or at least a proto-sociaist? Humans went from public a collective ownership of land. Evolved to private property. Should evolve back collective ownership? 🤔😎🤗😉

@owlnyc666 2 жыл бұрын

The middle class does not mind being in chains being unequal to the upper class because they have fewer chains and are better off than the lower class!!! 🤔😉

@skullcrusher9873 4 ай бұрын

He does not think that is possible, sadly. He says at the end that we can somewhat regulate the modern men by understanding the 'nurture' part of societal progress. A lot of things he was for politicaly could be classified as socialist, and became a standart in western europe nowdays.