POLC71H3 Lecture 6: Locke
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Locke"s first treatise: locke was alarmed by filmer"s argument because: Paternal power, or power you can have over children or council is fundamentally different than the type of power that governments exercise. This is what he finds a challenge in filmer"s text paternal power and political power are not the same thing. Something wrong with filmer"s strategy of power locke attempts to explain that there are different types of power. 3 different types of power according to locke: paternal power, political power and despotic power. The major issue of the second treatise: political power not the same as other kinds of power. Power of punishment thinks you cant have political power unless you can punish. In hobbes, property is not really important in this political theory, but for. Major issue political power: two major issues: Know now that locke rejects filmer story, so if he doesn"t want to look at filmerian theory, he needs to give his own account.
