POL 210 Lecture 7: Week 7 – Locke
7 Jan 2016
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Locke thinks that political power can be contrasted with different types of relationships, the world is divided into rulers vs those who are ruled (husband over wife, etc) However, political power is different from these relationships. There are constraints on what we can do and our self-persons (no killing yoself) State of war force without right acting in contradiction to reason an attempt to put someone in another"s absolute power. Hobbes: perpetual fighting and preparation of fighting. Chapter 3 sect 16 (passage read out loud) Men living together according to reason, without a common superior on earth, with authority to judge between them, is properly the state of nature. Authority implied by the law of nature and the deployment of reason. Locke: state of nature is only a setting in which we lack a common power. We lack a common power but we don"t have the hostility. The state of war is a temporary, intermittent state.
