POLS 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Everyman

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2900
• Professor: Michelle Mawhinney

Document Summary

Thomas hobbes leviathan chapter 17-31 (exclude 25), and 46. Chapter 17: of the causes, generation, and definition of a commonwealth. The final end of men if they show constraint on their natural appetites and violence is life in a commonwealth, which is foresight to their own preservation, for fear of punishment keeps them civil. Men without law only rely on honour, and the man that lives by robbing small families and avoiding any pain or violence has the most honour without law or society. These small families like kingdoms now join as dominions and security packs, and with protecting your neighbour from outsiders and the like you create and gain a new type of honour. Me(cid:374) joi(cid:374)i(cid:374)g to (cid:373)ake se(cid:272)u(cid:396)ity pa(cid:272)ks does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a set (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396) fo(cid:396) ou(cid:396) (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)ed se(cid:272)u(cid:396)ity. Thi(cid:374)k he"s goi(cid:374)g to make the war of all against all here. Men need a power to remain in awe of, otherwise there would since the beginning.