POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thomas Hobbes, Man Man, Natural Abundance
29 Jan 2019
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The second treatise of government: locke"s carefulness, leads us to decipher his relations as thinkers. Chapter 1: hopes this book will justify ruling of king william, one must not confuse different types of power, paternal, familial, political, define political power. If anyone has the right to enforce it, everyone does: section 8, each of us has the right to appoint ourselves as policeman, judges, etc. Involves people living together, governed by reason without common superior: state of war, people make designs of force upon others without common authority, difference between war in society and nature depends on when they conclude. In nature, war does not end until aggressors offer peace and reparations for damages. In the presence of a common authority that fails to act justly, only possible state is one of war: arbitrating power in place to stop war is itself in violation of laws of justice and nature.
