LS386 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Law Of Obligations, Individuation, Individualism
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Didn"t fight as a soldier in the war. Discipline and punish- birth of the prison. Interested in why people thought prison was a good idea: legitimacy: basis of how we have sovereign power. State power being expressed in the form of legal authority. The how of power: law truth power. Relationship between truth and power is an essential relationship. Juridical edifice: language, books, absolute power, monarchy. People sit down and write statues and laws which become codified. Royal power becomes invested in right as a basis of its own authority. Human rights exist today -encroachment in state power. All power is contained at the centre. Juridical edifice: courseware could act as a contract between us students and the prof. We also police eachother, its been diffused. If a student starts playing music out loud in class, we"d shush him which is a form of policing.