Jacques Lacan

Social Contract And Popular Sovereignty The social contracts stems from individuals coming together to form a sort of agreement to, which is central in making a society. Not only form a society but to make it a better place. Law, State and the constitution are all by-products of society; here we see the stepping-stone from people being people, to it becoming sovereign. All theories conclude that people make this social contract for protection of their being and also their property. They all…

Social Inequality and the Right to Labor in Locke’s Second Treatise; In Locke’s Second Treatise, there is an apparent tension between a citizen’s right to accumulate what can be ma[d]e use of to any advantage of [human] life before it spoils” and the citizen’s responsibility to leave “enough, and as good […] in common for others” (§31; §27). With the invention of money, laborers are able to overcome the spoilage limitation and possess unequal amounts of property; the question is whether this…

Blog # 1: The Social Contract After reading Rousseau’s Social Contract, I’ve come to realize just how pervasive social contracts are in our society. The main philosophical question The Social Contract attempts to answer is how we can we be free and live together? Put another away, how can we live together without succumbing to the force and authority of others. Rousseau believes that this can be accomplished by submitting our individual wills to the general will, created through agreement with…

Society has a huge influence on whom people are and what people become. They have impacted in people's view on what is right or wrong and people's perspective. Many citizens want to break free from society including Bernard, John and Helmholtz. Bernard is an outcast and disagrees with the ideals of society. Society makes people take a drug called soma, but Bernard does not agree with society's control on how people should feel. When approached by Henry Foster to take soma, Bernard refuses to…

For centuries, male intellectuals argued that the nature of women is inferior to men and made male domination of women necessary. However, the new movement for women?fs right called feminism was born in the age of Enlightenment. The strongest statement was advanced by the English writer Mary Wollstonecraft. She argued that women should have equal rights with men in education, as well as in economic and political life. Enlightenment thought had some impact on the political life and social…

directly consent to this system, but rather give tacit consent. As such, the question must be asked: “What was the period called before tacit consent was present in society?” Many political philosophers, such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau have called the period before society “the state of nature.” Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau all agree on the hypothetical starting point of the state of nature, but they disagree on the details. Both Hobbes and Locke agree that the…

How is human existence improved or degraded after the passage of nature to society? Aristotle feels that not only is human existence greatly improved by society but society is absolutely necessary for him to truly and fully experience his existence. Aristotle claims that humanity is only self-sufficient in a society. "The complete community...is the city. It reaches a level of full self- sufficiency, so to speak; and while coming into being for the sake of living, it exists for the sake of…

The 18th century Enlightenment period was undeniably a historical viewpoint that advocated for greater decency in society. During its beginnings, many intellectuals referred as the “philosophes” emerged in France, and used the ideas of the Scientific Revolution to reconsider all aspects of society. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant defined the Enlightenment as “a man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity” (What Is Enlightenment?). Kant even proclaimed as the maxim of the Enlightenment: “Dare…

The Enlightenment was a movement that claimed the minds of a majority of liberal thinkers and was a time of political awakening that became revolutionary. Spreading throughout Europe and describing a time in western philosophy, the Enlightenment was the time scholars and intellectuals were free to speak their mind without fear of authority. Individuals of this certain time period, which was known as the “Age of Reason” spoke on fundamental concepts that were faith in nature, belief in human…

“The Social Contract” was Rousseau’s most important contribution to his time, and to philosophy in general. It played a key role in establishing governments after the American Revolution and French Revolution. He brought to light these new ideas, and they would have a lasting effect for the years to come. Going hand in hand with Rousseau’s “The Social Contract”, his “Discourse on Inequality” provides many key points and factors left out. While “The Social Contract” gives a solution to failures…