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Ideas for Eubulides, Owen Flanagan and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 1. Slavery
19784 Enslaved peoples often boast of their condition, calling it a state of 'peace' [Rousseau]
19785 If the child of a slave woman is born a slave, then a man is not born a man [Rousseau]
19841 Sometimes full liberty is only possible at the expense of some complete enslavement [Rousseau]
19847 We can never assume that the son of a slave is a slave [Rousseau]
19775 People must be made dependent before they can be enslaved [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle
7242 Appetite alone is slavery, and self-prescribed laws are freedom [Rousseau]
19746 Like rich food, liberty can ruin people who are too weak to cope with it [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality
19786 Three stages of the state produce inequalities of wealth, power, and enslavement [Rousseau]
19800 The social compact imposes conventional equality of rights on people who may start unequally [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 4. Economic equality
19788 The pleasure of wealth and power is largely seeing others deprived of them [Rousseau]
7248 No citizen should be rich enough to buy another, and none so poor as forced to sell himself [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 3. Alienating rights
19794 If we all give up all of our rights together to the community, we will always support one another [Rousseau]
7241 In society man loses natural liberty, but gains a right to civil liberty and property [Rousseau]
19806 We alienate to society only what society needs - but society judges that, not us [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights
19777 Persuading other people that some land was 'owned' was the beginning of society [Rousseau]
19782 What else could property arise from, but the labour people add to it? [Rousseau]
19781 Land cultivation led to a general right of ownership, administered justly [Rousseau]
19754 If we have a natural right to property, what exactly does 'belonging to' mean? [Rousseau]
19799 Private property must always be subordinate to ownership by the whole community [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / a. Legal system
19819 The state ensures liberty, so civil law separates citizens, and binds them to the state [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / c. Natural law
19750 Writers just propose natural law as the likely useful agreements among people [Rousseau]
7245 Natural justice, without sanctions, benefits the wicked, who exploit it [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / a. Right to punish
19809 We accept the death penalty to prevent assassinations, so we must submit to it if necessary [Rousseau]
19810 A trial proves that a criminal has broken the social treaty, and is no longer a member of the state [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / b. Retribution for crime
19770 Primitive people simply redressed the evil caused by violence, without thought of punishing [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / c. Deterrence of crime
19811 Only people who are actually dangerous should be executed, even as an example [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / b. Justice in war
7236 War gives no right to inflict more destruction than is necessary for victory [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / c. Combatants
23607 Wars are between States, not people, and the individuals are enemies by accident [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / e. Peace
19783 A state of war remains after a conquest, if the losers don't accept the winners [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 2. Religion in Society
19850 By separating theological and political systems, Jesus caused divisions in the state [Rousseau]
19852 Civil religion needs one supreme god, an afterlife, justice, and the sanctity of the social contract [Rousseau]
19853 All religions should be tolerated, if they tolerate each other, and support citizenship [Rousseau]
19851 Every society has a religion as its base [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 4. Taxation
19836 The amount of taxation doesn't matter, if it quickly circulates back to the citizens [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights
19753 Both men and animals are sentient, which should give the latter the right not to be mistreated [Rousseau]