POLI 300B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Externality, French Revolution, Nominalism

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 300B
• Professor: Rob Walker

Document Summary

You no longer need church as institution, or angels, or organizational structure. Basics is: order, security, but the problem is produced by historical transformation. Crucial to understand in book; when hobbes mentions state of nature: and starts referring to indigenous ppl of north america, is describing modern man, modern liberals. Hobbes says; 2 (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)s: you"re free if (cid:455)ou o(cid:271)e(cid:455) therefore (cid:455)ou"re se(cid:272)ure, (cid:455)ou"re also free under the law (cid:455)ou sta(cid:455) ali(cid:448)e i(cid:374) (cid:455)ou follo(cid:449)/pro(cid:373)ote the la(cid:449), (cid:455)ou"re a(cid:271)le to li(cid:448)e freel(cid:455) of (cid:449)hat the la(cid:449) does (cid:374)ot prohibit. Mind-blowing during this time hobbes could say man is free and equal, and offering a whole set of problems, the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual u(cid:374)derstood i(cid:374) a parti(cid:272)ular (cid:449)a(cid:455) a(cid:374)d it"s relatio(cid:374)ships to (cid:862)(cid:454)(cid:863) No faith in politics, substitute is the contract; law. The invention of printing; insemination of information. Gutenberg printing press: printing of bible, takes word of god outside of priesthood and into the hands of whoever could read.