Like, totalitarianly, man.Simply put, [the general will] is a form of association in which an individual alienates himself completely to the general will, and therefore regains his freedom in a political form. This of course has been criticised: some say it leads directly to dictatorship. Others, like Louis Althusser, say it is based on the premise that the people enter into a contract with nobody else but themselves – a logical impossibility.
However, Rousseau believed that in the form of the general will, the alienation of man would transform itself into freedom – this makes him nothing less than the inventor of modern dialectics, uniting the opposing concepts of nature (or freedom) and society (or contract), in their own opposition. All of Rousseau's philosophy is an attempt to find a solution to the problem of alienation. For Rousseau, the only thing that made humans different from animals is his free will, something constantly placed in danger whenever man enters into society.
As a revolutionary thinker, Rousseau understood that the general will, or the will of the people, should be sovereign – and that is the catch. It is here where we regain our freedom inside social organisation. Only the general will – general interest as opposed to private interest – guarantees man his autonomy. No society can be free unless individuals understand that the general will or general interest should prevail over their own individual one.
They see admiralty law as being the law of commerce, the law of ownership, citizenship, and indeed anything else ending in "-ship." They see evidence of this in various nautical-sounding terms used in court, such as "dock," "birth (berth) certificate," "-ship" suffixes and any other fancy word they think might have a vaguely naval sound.
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When judges leave the courtroom, Freemen will attempt to claim common law authority and then attempt to dismiss the charges themselves, often with a cry of "ship abandoned" or "man overboard.
Now that he can't pay back his speculative debts, he's resorted to socialism (and confused nationalism too judging by his piece yesterday)
only in Ireland will folk like this get so much media coverage..
Are you sure?
If a big auction got called off in the UK due to protests, I think it would feature on the news.
It was a news item, whether you like what happened or not.
The nationalism line is mad. Allsops did us all a favour by having these auctions and establishing a realistic price level for properties. They seem very straight up , unlike our own native Irish auctioneers.
So would you describe him as a national socialist?
"Pat Kenny was on the Ross Maguire/David Hall show again today" !!!!
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