POLI 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ultimate Power
30 Jan 2017
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Locke lecture 9: locke"s state of nature vs. Political society: ideological function: property, two ways of individuating property, natural route: State of nature: the individual is sovereign and can execute the laws of nature with no consent. Political society: the parliament and executive execute the laws: ideological function of state of nature / political society distinction. Political society according do locke states that if the state is hiding information from the people they are allowed to take up arms. This follows the theory of trust and revolution mentioned earlier. This is relevant in the domestic context but also the interstate context: but: domestic politics not only context. Chapter 5: in the beginning, all the world was america : 17th c colonial context in americas. State of nature: he considered that everyone living there previous to. There was a conflict between the indigenous and the european colonisation (indigenous) lived in the state of nature colonisers.
