POLSCI 2O06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Royal African Company, Limited Government, Robert Filmer
12 Jan 2018
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1642 51 civil war (nasty, brutish, and short) 1652 59 protectorate: the creation of the republic (becomes a dictatorship) 1660 restoration: the monarchy comes back. Look at these texts to understand these texts as weapons, they are instruments of war: they are looking to advantage particular ends. Wars of religion in 17th century europe: thomas hobbes: we need to submit to the absolute authority of the monarchy to stop the fighting (absolutism) Polsci 2o06b winter 2018: he argued for freedom and rights for everyone, but was involved in the slave trade. If you are against abs: he wrote it anonymously and published it in 1689, after his side had one. It will not be the leviathan without the head of the monarchy. Chapter 5 economics: hobbes: you have a right to property is the sovereignty gives you a right to property, chapter 29 (cid:862)a (cid:1009)th doctrine that should ha(cid:448)e e(cid:395)ual (cid:396)ight to the sa(cid:373)e. (cid:863)
