SCS 1160 Lecture Notes - Thomas Hobbes, Majority Rule, Tabular Islamic Calendar

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 1160
• Professor: Jordan Stancil

Document Summary

Twp step process move to the state of nature to civil society. The first step involves creating a community within the state of nature still, and then that community of people that are already living together, then they set up a state. The social contract is first among ourselves, then there is another contract with the state, we deligate some authority to the government in order to do some of the things better for us as community becomes more complicated. The difference is that the purpose of the state is to segregate these dangerous passions. Can"t live in the state of nature becomes it becomes unconvienent. There is no reason we couldn"t cooperate in the state of nature. Hobbes- go back to the state of nature, where everyone is for themselves, they will do whatever they want to get it.