CLASE ESPECIAL: LA CONCEPCION CONTRACTUAL DE ROUSSEAU

El foco de esta clase especial es Rousseau. Se presentan los conceptos de contrato social en Rousseau, así como los de voluntad general y democracia. Seguimos trabajando siguiendo el programa con los textos: JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU: La voluntad general. Concepto de democracia 

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU: La voluntad general. Concepto de democracia 

Textos de referencia: Jean Jacques Rousseau, El contrato social I, 6-7; II, 1-4; III, 1-4

Proponemos este video basado en Introduction to Political Philosophy (PLSC 114) de la Universidad de Yale, para profundizar y practicar con los conceptos Rousseaunianos, en inglés.

"The concept of "general will" is considered Rousseau's most important contribution to political science. It is presented as the answer to the gravest problems of civilization, namely, the problems of inequality, amour-propre, and general discontent. The social contract is the foundation of the general will and the answer to the problem of natural freedom, because nature itself provides no guidelines for determining who should rule. The lecture ends with Rousseau's legacy and the influence he exercised on later nineteenth-century writers and philosophers.

00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Social Contract and the General Will
25:04 - Chapter 2. Applications of the General Will
30:54 - Chapter 3. The Legacies of Rousseau"

 


Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses- This course was recorded in Fall 2006.