POLI SCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Leviathan, Endangerment
6 Oct 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Lecture 4: hobbes and the science of politics. Born 1588 in southwest england to a poor family had an uncle who helped him study at oxford. 1642-1651 the english civil war was happening pitted parliament against king religious dimension due to status of the church. Hobbes fled to paris in 1649 due to war. Levianthan appeared in 1651 was first seen as shocking and offensive because of its description of the role of religion and the unsentimental view of power. Soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body (hobbes, the levianthan, 1) Analogy between parts of the state and parts of the human body. Aim of the state is protection of individuals. Sovereignty is to state as soul is to body. For the similitude of the thoughts, and passions of one man, to the thoughts, and. Think about mankind within the terms of yourself. Think about what we would do and then conclude how humans are.
