It is also where morals and virtues are established. So, since we need community to develop society and therefore constitute meaning in our lives, then we need other people to be people which is a relationalist belief. As I stated earlier the family is the first form of society and it is therefore the “prototype of political societies” (Morgan, 772). In this analogy, the leader would be representative of the father and the people representative of the children. This view of government further enforces Rousseau’s relationalism by not only creating meaningful relationships within familial units but also within community and society as a whole. It also sets up his conservative political
It is also where morals and virtues are established. So, since we need community to develop society and therefore constitute meaning in our lives, then we need other people to be people which is a relationalist belief. As I stated earlier the family is the first form of society and it is therefore the “prototype of political societies” (Morgan, 772). In this analogy, the leader would be representative of the father and the people representative of the children. This view of government further enforces Rousseau’s relationalism by not only creating meaningful relationships within familial units but also within community and society as a whole. It also sets up his conservative political