POLS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Robert Filmer, Autocracy, Patriarcha

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 250
• Professor: Colin Farrelly

Document Summary

Community: social order requires community ( 3 attributes, people have common beliefs and values, relations between members should be direct and they should be many-sided, reciprocity (practices of mutual aid, sharing, etc. 17 leviathan (discussion of bees and ants: 5 important differences between humans and other animals to deny anarchy, we are in competition for honour and dignity [leads us to war] Some functions is to protect the hive and die in order to save the whole. Others fight for mates: among animals the common good=private good, animals don"t have reason (thus don"t see any fault in the administration of their business) Reason provides us with desire to overthrow government: animals don"t have language (can"t deceive each other) Broken promises: agreement among creatures is natural [for humans it is artificial-need a common power to keep it together] Need state, or leader to keep social contract. Compliance problem: why be just? (glaucon plato"s republic)