POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Slow Hand, John Locke, Legislature
7 Apr 2014
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Locke and hobbes" laws of nature very diff: people need to be concerned not only of their own preservation, but preservation of all humans. Individuals had power and right to enforce law of nature. Whereas for hobbes natural law didn"t apply in state of nature; it only allowed people to get out of state of nature: for locke, there is a thing as justice in state of nature. Gives something that allows political order to be judged. But for hobbes, law is something that is created by political order. Reparation and restraint are only reasons why ppl can punish ppl in state of nature for. Locke: possibility of war inevitable in locke"s state of nature that creates move into political order. Importance and purpose of gov is for preservation of property: locke. Locke understands property: your body, your life, your actions, your fate.
