POL320Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Aka People
22 Mar 2017
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In order to find out about natural inequality and man made inequality we have to go back to the state of nature. Rousseau argues that in the beginning we were equal but we changed and became unequal. Hobbes believes that as long as a sovereign is in charge we can have commodius living, no need to change ourselves. Locke adds that the most important is to have a government that protects private property. As people begin to use reason with our free will we are able to change our environment which in turn changes us. The morale characteristics of the state of nature. Our lives are one of innocence, as a simple animal we are incapable of understanding good or evil. There is no need for a conception of good or evil or a conception of justice or injustic or virtue or vice.
