PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Distributive Justice
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Phl100 lecture: hobbes believes that knowledge comes from the senses, and that perception is the root of our mental capacity, humans have two contradictory desires, these being the desire for power as well as the desire for peace. The path from nature to society: hobbes found that the pursuit of peace requires the taming of aggression, and this is achieved by mutual agreement, or covenant. For example, promising to return a pencil that you have borrowed. For hobbes, this was essentially the transfer of a right. But, if it is normative, it has no natural force: evidently, punishment brings an economic solution to conflict.
