POLSCI 2O06 Lecture Notes - For Marx, The Communist Manifesto, Homo Sapiens
4 Mar 2014
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Hobbes-we needed a ruler to tell us the law. Locke-if we look at nature and scripture we can find out what is just or unjustnature of lawgod. Locke-one of the most important rights is property. Chp 5 you have a right to what is yours. Hobbes would say the ruler gave it you. Locke-you have a natural right because you have put work into it and a right to defend it. In america, great wealth but everyone poor because they have not discovered money. The land only becomes my when i mix my labour with it, when i have cultivated it. And stole it because the people there, the native americans, were not using it. Improvement through trade and investment: modern day capitalism you have a right to propertygod gave them to you. Inconvenience to state of nature: if someone violates your rights, you need to punish them yourself.
