General will comes with unified purpose.
It’s very hard to convince these individuals of a general will.
So, he turns to the legislator.
He goes back to the notion of a law giver. Like sovereigns and founders.
Set up the institutions so that we’re educated to see the general will.
We have to have the general will but also the particular wills.
(If the law giver is something like Machiavelli’s prince)
Virtu is to recognize opportunities.
Hobbes doesn’t believe in virtu or fortuna.
Rousseau wants us to look at the past rationally.
Machiavelli thinks that you can acquire all knowledge from the past. Past oriented. But now with Rousseau, you get a new mindset of the past. It changes the ethos of the western world.
The past is going to be looked at as a collective histories.
Histories is made up discreet events. Unique events. Events that can’t be duplicated.
We see our history as progress.
Liberate the yolk of the past because......
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