POLSCI 2J03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: English Civil War, Cardinal Virtues, Leviathan
20 Mar 2013
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Check avenue for details as to how to write paper (avenue not up yet doe) Realism: economic nationalism, mercantilism, state centric. Winners and losers and one must take it upon himself to be a winner and sometimes you must make sacrifices and allow yourself to progress at the expense of others: thomas hobbes. Lived in period of upheaval and turmoil (english civil war; Idea that order can best be attained by a group of individuals who bind themselves together and formulate a craft a state a leviathan a gov. that represents all the diff individuals within society. Out of the feat of state of nature. In a state of nature there is no prosperity only poverty and human suffer. Everybody is equal in state of nature; because everybody has the ability to kill everyone else; associated with fear, death, and destruction. Gives some rights to state so government can provide order.
