tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900163490594217865.post4021441379326530853..comments2024-03-26T10:18:23.512-04:00Comments on Three White Leopards: QuoteEmily Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16354755143064303505noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900163490594217865.post-78385959597985752882016-03-13T21:15:45.586-04:002016-03-13T21:15:45.586-04:00So it is and it isn't...So it is and it isn't...Emily Halehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16354755143064303505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900163490594217865.post-52174303471910472552016-03-12T08:59:28.684-05:002016-03-12T08:59:28.684-05:00Consent is presumed by non-resistance, as with sla...Consent is presumed by non-resistance, as with slaves. So I guess nursing would count as an act of consent. Of course, young children DO resist, and Hobbes says so himself in De Cive. He also says later in Leviathan, in teh chapter on sovereign authorization, that children aren't capable of consent. It's a completely preposterous argument. I think it's possible that Rousseau is mocking it in Emile when he describes what it takes to induce the child to consent to his tutor's authority as an adolescent.Miss Self-Importanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04477849823290773026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900163490594217865.post-78435996244118575862016-03-08T13:13:02.437-05:002016-03-08T13:13:02.437-05:00Yes--one of the people at dinner described it as a...Yes--one of the people at dinner described it as an infant consenting to the contract by choosing to nurse (unless that's in another passage that I couldn't find). Emily Halehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16354755143064303505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900163490594217865.post-2633646644355667832016-03-08T13:11:15.470-05:002016-03-08T13:11:15.470-05:00A very different sentiment than Aristotle's.A very different sentiment than Aristotle's.Miss Self-Importanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04477849823290773026noreply@blogger.com