POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Political Philosophy, Social Contract, New Approach
20 Sep 2017
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Lecture outline: hobbes, leviathan, chapters 1 5: general introduction, brief summary of his life and times. He explains the natural science world to explain the social world and peace. The origins of justice is a contract its not natural which we see in plato: hobbes"s leviathan in historical context, hobbes and the social contract tradition. Hobbes uses this explain how to get peace through a social contract theory. Social contract theory says government is not natural because government doesn"t come about naturally and must be constructed. It explains why we need government and why we should obey it. We must obey because we promise to obey government. Government just like justice is based on a contract. Like all contracts it creates obligations for both citizens and government. The type of contract, the extent of obligations vary, he speaks to a different type of government or contract to locke.
