Vive la Révolution !!!
"The thought, then, is that the State integrates the self-interested individuals of civil society into a political community by means of social institutions which allow them to realize their freedom", Hengel.The Enlightenment thinkers, as Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau and Smith (among others) were some great guys, and I understood almost everything about their ideas. Integrate the "Laws of nature" in philosophical thinking in order to stop relying on the past, the history, but realize that modern society in based on future (new?), on passion and desires, that's not so hard to understand. And the first chapter of my book was quite easy to follow. Until I got to the second chapter, about Hegel and his ethical life theory...
Okay, here is what I understood. Correct me if I miss the point. An individual is part of a family and love other members of his family, interact a lot. This individual is also part of the civil society, where the self-interested is leading the socio-economic structure - a butcher doesn't sell meat for my need but for his profit. Here come the negation, meaning that an individual act in different way which should make the situation impossible. Hoppefully, the State is here to give the negation of the negation, telling that finally, people should act in a common interest and then access to their freedom - different from liberty please.
All right, this is my first time with sociology.
Milla, I tried to send you an email, but the adress you gave me doesn't work (or I didn't type it correctly).
Last nite, birthday party. Silvia turned 22.
Tomorrow, I'll start reading about Marx. I guess he is the one who originally theorize something I'm quite confident in... I'll tell you more about it soon.
written by lolo/ @ 19:13
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