POLI 300B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Philosophical Realism, Dogma, Contract Theory
16 Jan 2018
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Man as free and equal with sovereignty is obedience to the state: don"t o(cid:271)ey la(cid:449) of state, (cid:272)ut off your head. Contract theory: contract theory, sovereignty, liberty under the law- worked through by hobbes from basic principles. Individualism has origins especially against protestant reformations: machiavelli it is the collective/society you talk about first then the individual, hobbes it is the individual you talk about first then build up collective, instead of society first. If you want to understand mankind study man he says (hobbes: world is made of atoms not fortuna or cosmic crime, identifiable dynamic, understood by science hobbes. Prof says: we know the world as it is for us, not as it is for itself. Ma(cid:272)hia(cid:448)elli is still a philosophi(cid:272)al realist, (cid:862)it"s (cid:271)ullshit(cid:863) refers to essences, qualitative, closer to astrology hobbes attacks that whole world (conclusion) You classify, generalize and pitch yourself as new.
