PSCI 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Barter, Consistency, Eurocentrism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 2302
• Professor: Kathlean Fitzpatrick

Document Summary

Election!!!!! (voting, representative government) with hobbes there is only the original social contract and then there is no say on the authoritarian government. Government is not only a force and counter-force of power . Human nature may not be good but its not bad (it is more than just selfishness, there is a reciprocity: think property, think family, how can you have an existence without these things, fundamental social relationships. Denial of hobbes" reassertion of human society. However, not aristotle sheers off honour, leaves it at appetite: has to serve a human, lowers the bar of classical tradition, not concerned about good life of leisure and honour leaves it at the appetites. What is life without the means to life (need sustenance, security) Property is a metaphor to include self-preservation the means of life (comfortable preservation: life freedom to self, liberty free will, the freedom to move about in society, estate your positions.