ARCHIVE - "Liberty and Justice for All" - State of Nature Paper http://www2.evergreen.edu/libertyandjustice/taxonomy/term/13/0 Please post your initial paper on the "state of nature" here. en ARCHIVE - Ian Clement http://www2.evergreen.edu/libertyandjustice/ian-clement <p> Ian Clement </p> <p> Fall 2007</p> <p> Rambling or Rhetoric?.............You decide</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>In the book; <em>On The Social Contract by</em>: Jean Rousseau , The author begins his work by saying that people (men, or maybe just men?) are born free but that they are in chains everywhere. Rousseau compares a family unit to the structure of a political system. Relating the &quot;father&quot; to the Political leader and the Child to the governed person. He seems to validate the ruling class structure by saying that a child only needs the parent until it can do without it, and that if a child stays connected to the father it is done only because of convention. This part of the authors work is where I start to shut down my thinking process because it seemed so patriarchal and outdated, but by re-reading and focusing on what I thought were the main points I was able to think about how the family hierarchical social structure might have evolved when the social structures got larger.</p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/libertyandjustice/ian-clement">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/libertyandjustice/ian-clement#comment State of Nature Paper Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:37:06 -0700 cleian06 51 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/libertyandjustice