POL 2108 Lecture Notes - Connecticut Route 15
27 Feb 2014
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Pol 2108 a - modern political thought i - guy c t - 15 feb. 25. John locke (1632-1704: comes from a bourgeois family, almost noble, studied philosophy (ma), then did medicine, politics, diplomacy, wrote a book trying to describe what knowledge is, also wrote the 2 treaties of government. The 2 treaties of government: rxn to robert filmer"s approach who says the absolute monarchy is the best, b/c the king gets his power from god. The state of nature (son: locke says the state of nature is not pre-political, in contrast with hobbes", the son is neither a state of war, but a state of harmony. People naturally care for each other: the son of having humans living together is based on reason. There is no common superior authority, people don"t need it since people live in harmony. The only law is the law of nature, so monarchy has no place.
