PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Endangerment
17 Mar 2018
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Claims that as human beings we possess certain important characteristics or features in common with each other. Human beings are possessed of certain psychological attitudes or moral capacities that influence how we relate to other human beings as well as the rest of the natural and supernatural world. Famous for arguing that human beings are naturally inclined to attack and manipulate each other. Asks us to imagine that we are all in a world without government, police, and military as the (cid:858)state of (cid:374)ature(cid:859) (cid:894)li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g (cid:449)ithout (cid:272)usto(cid:373)s, (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ers, a(cid:374)d la(cid:449)(cid:895) Most have a sneaking suspicion that they are better than everyone else. Most of us never actually experience war. When it comes to war, there are no rules, just survive. Hobbes theory has created international relationships, no common power, thus every nation must be suspicious of another nation, and prepared for attack.
