PSCI 2301 Lecture Notes - Herd Behavior, Class Conflict, Proletariat
7 Jul 2014
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Class 13 psci2300b april 7, 2014 review. Simplicity of the review only gives a guide to fundamental questions. Use all of the key concepts in your essay and short-answer questions (the ones that are on the slides): leviathan, sovereignty, mechanical universe, power, natural right, appetite/aversion, fear of death, vain-glory, war of all against all, and commonwealth. Fear of violent death keeps individuals and order; sovereignty is based on absolute and unlimited sovereignty. New science of politics = mechanical worldview as opposed to christian order. Question 3: although hobbes government is tyrannical and totalitarian, freedom of subject is in absence of the law (negative freedom) Key concepts: law of nature, right reason, state of war, property, waste, self-defence, limited government, tyranny, and right to resistance. Law of nature is nostalgic gesture back to ideas of classical right reason and christian moral sensibility; man still has a soul; man cannot alienate rights to sovereign because.
