POL 2108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pzl P.11, Habituation, Tyrant
28 Jan 2014
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Text on abusive rulers and very harsh critique of the rules. The text seeks to make us feel ashamed of ourselves hyperbole and insults directed at the reader. 2 claims 1) liberty is never truly taken away from us it"s we who give it away: servitude is a completely unacceptable phenomenon, and a puzzling one. The cause of our servitude cannot be fear we are more numerous. It must have more to do with a generalized indifference of a weak to inexistent desire for freedom. But nature set up us thus so that we could help each other: nature has made us free (servitude is not natural or good) We are by nature equipped with the urge to defend/protect our freedom: the natural character of liberty babies or individuals ignorant of the terms liberty/slavery/etc. Why voluntary servitude (4 key reasons: first cause convention (customs), habituation (we"re used to it) to subjection.
