FYSM 1300 Lecture 3: Week 3

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Contractually (or contractarianism); shifts of early modernity: thread that links the early modern theorists to classical. Natural the priority of the polis to the priority of the individual; Week 3 - september 21 - inventing the rights-bearing subject: Key conceptual: from, from, reason is the ideas of justice. In his view, all our actions are performed for self-interested reasons: either to obtain satisfaction or to avoid harm. Nature has made men so equal in faculties of body and mind that, although one may be a little stronger or brighter than the other, when they are put together, the difference between them becomes insignificant. For hobbes, the equality of mind is even greater. He leaves aside arts and science, because he believes that people are not born with the knowledge of those fields and that just a few individuals can acquire this knowledge in a very specific area.

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