CONTRACT FOR THE STATE, CONJURATION AGAINST THE STATE: A COLLISION BETWEEN THE THOUGHTS OF LOCKE, ROUSSEAU AND CLASTRESNovember 11th, 2018
FiledNovember 11th, 2018This paper aims to make a brief analysis of the social contract theories in Locke and Rousseau. Both authors share the concept of a deliberate agreement between humans whose wild condition finishes with this decision. Therefore, the State emerges to protect from a certain way of living: the wildness. In contrast, Pierre Clastres – French ethnologist – enlightens issues about primitive groups in current times and demonstrates that there is a permanent conjuration against the emergence of a political power beyond the control of the social group as a whole. Hence, these
CONTRACT FOR THE STATE, CONJURATION AGAINST THE STATE: A COLLISION BETWEEN THE THOUGHTS OF LOCKE, ROUSSEAU AND CLASTRESSeptember 17th, 2018
FiledSeptember 17th, 2018This paper aims to make a brief analysis of the social contract theories in Locke and Rousseau. Both authors share the concept of a deliberate agreement between humans whose wild condition finishes with this decision. Therefore, the State emerges to protect from a certain way of living: the wildness. In contrast, Pierre Clastres – French ethnologist – enlightens issues about primitive groups in current times and demonstrates that there is a permanent conjuration against the emergence of a political power beyond the control of the social group as a whole. Hence, these groups are societies against the State. Thus, we aim to make a collision between the