Freedom & The Social Contract
Week Two Discussions
DISCUSSION QUESTION CHOICE #2:
Considering the State of Nature: Who among the philosophers this week, Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, has in your mind the most compelling description of the theoretical state of nature?
Use your knowledge of the readings, the ideas of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, as well your own experiences and moral judgments to argue this question. Make sure to address possible objections to your reasoning.
W2 Required Readings
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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes-moral/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-freedom/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-political/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rousseau/
Library of Primary Sources
Plato’s Republic
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Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
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Hobbes’ Leviathan
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Locke’s Second Treatise of Government
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Rousseau’s Second Discourse
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Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789).
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John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
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John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
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Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia
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John Rawls, Political Liberalism
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Martha Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice
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Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars
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