DVM 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: De Cive, Body Politic, Sea Monster

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: International Development and Globalization
• Course: DVM 2105
• Professor: Mahmoud Masaeli

Document Summary

Elements of law, moral, and politics, 1940. Attention to the real problems of his time: dispute between the church and the state, quarrel between the king and the parliament, How to bring social order back to the country: from sedition and civil war to a peaceful life, from human body to body politic, a need for the leviathan, He wanted to develop a new political science. Leviathan," a word derived from the hebrew for a "sea (cid:373)o(cid:374)ster(cid:862), The highest, the most powerful, and rational being in the nature, The image constitutes the definitive metaphor for perfect government. 1 civil peace and social unity are best achieved by the establishment of a commonwealth through social contract. 2 commonwealth is ruled by a sovereign power who is responsible for protecting the security of the commonwealth and is granted absolute authority to ensure the common defence. 3 commonwealth is like an "artificial person" and as a body politic that mimics the human body.