PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Contract, Individual And Group Rights
14 Sep 2016
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I give up my right to do something as long as you give up your right to do those same things as well. Sacrifice some rights to feel safer because others sacrifice those rights. Believes we need a force or figure to make ourselves stay in line and keep our contract. Individuals are free in the state of nature. Political state that involves someone"s free will into a governing body. Sacrifice some of our will and freedom. All have a piece of sovereign in us: the sovereign cannot be removed from power except voluntarily, the sovereign has no obligations to his subjects; he upholds obligations they have to one another. If you join a commonwealth, you obey the sovereign even when you disagree with her. 3: because the sovereign acts on the behalf of all subjects, everything the sovereign does. 5. is in a sense done by them.
