HUMR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Good Life, Third Order, Human Nature

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Human Rights
• Course: HUMR 2001
• Professor: Tamara Kotar

Document Summary

Social contract theory and human rights: social contract theorists. Important in conversation of human rights, something we assume. Through social contract for security: reciprocal promise, tacit consent. Hobbes leviathan: leviathan is state power which seed freedom to (common wealth, (cid:862)life is (cid:374)asty, (cid:271)(cid:396)utish a(cid:374)d sho(cid:396)t(cid:863) In the state of nature, before enter into society, life is nasty, brutish and short. Argues need social contract and need government. One of first thinkers to address human rights. Says we need structure in society to preserve security and stability. No measurement of just and unjust in state of nature, no institution to organize it, need sovereign for rules of living together. Have rights in state of nature but only obliged to observe own rights in state of (cid:374)atu(cid:396)e, (cid:374)ot a(cid:374)yo(cid:374)e else"s leads to conflict, death, destruction. Second order objective: conditions to ensure self-preservation.