CRJS 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cesare Beccaria, Spirit Possession, Tabula Rasa

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJS 1001
• Professor: Andreas E.Tomaszewski

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Thomas hobbes (cid:498)natural state(cid:499) of humanity, life in a pre- social state of nature was (cid:498)nasty, brutish and short(cid:499). Fear of violent death forces human beings into a social contract with each other that leads to the formation of the state. Human behavior = egoism, self-interest and this is the cause of all social conflict. State serves a protective function but must give up their natural rights and give absolute authority to the state in return for its protection. Without this social contract, chaos would erupt. If people were fully aware of their chances in states either with or without gov, they would choose the state with a gov. Individual is better off in a state where only the gov can legitimately exercise aggression. Unnatural for people to put themselves under the control of the state but it is rational. Natural human condition at birth was a blank slate. Metaphor of a person computer, all children come in the.