POL S101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Occupy Movement, Seat Belt, Alexis De Tocqueville
9 May 2016
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A form of government (regime) whereby the people are governed according to rules they themselves decide on. Plato"s cave - an analogy about why philosophers should rule. Liberal revolution - the crisis occurring at the end of feudalism when europe transitioned to capitalist monarchy. Liberal democracy - public private split, freedom and equality. State of nature - a situation without government, employed by social contract theory in order to justify political authority. Nature right - hobbes thought the right to preserve ourselves. John locke"s theory stated that life, liberty and property were man"s natural rights. Law of nature - we must seek peace to live peacefully however authority is needed to have this peace. It can be an agreement without knowledge and is the transfer of the natural right to make die and let live to an outside authority - the sovereign.
