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Comment: “Obedience to mere impulse of appetite is slavery.” (Rousseau)

  • UPSC 1993
  • Democracy

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The line closes Book I, chapter 8 ("The Civil State") of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract (1762): the mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty. It turns freedom from the absence of restraint into self-mastery under self-made law. It roots positive liberty and the…

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  • Three Kinds of Liberty
  • Why It Matters for Democratic Self-Government
  • The Critique
  • Indian Illustration
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