PHIL 1290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Randomness, Thomas Hobbes
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Scheffler is terrorism morally distinctive? (he cancelled monday"s class) Begins by distinguishing a couple instances of terrorism that don"t hold water. Xxxx use word terrorism to refer to any form of political violence perpetrated by non-state actor: ex. rebels in syria. Defines real terrorists as state officials against whom they are fighting. Scheffler goes back to hobbes: hobbes pushes philosophy that we are always selfish, fear and social life are incompatible, hobbes (author of) leviathan, social life must be governed by fear. Terrorists engage in violence in order to create fear or terror. Aims to strike at heart of civil society. Minimal features of terrorism: threat of violence against non-combatants, intention that this violence should create fear in others, fear should threaten to degrade social order. September 10th, the 9/11 hijackers went to a strip club to see how corrupt usa is look at what they let their daughters do .
