Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Role Of Christianity In Civilization, Thought Experiment
23 Jan 2020
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Failed state: no recognized authority with a monopoly on legitimate use of force. Leads to a sense of uneasiness which can then lead to anarchy and chaos. States near collapse or failure are sometimes called fragile. Afghanistan is fragile because of the taliban and the unrest. There is also parts of not fragile states (us) that are dangerous does not mean that they are a fragile or failed state. Imagine life without the state and political power. Schrodinger cat a cat is put in a box with something that could kill it we cannot know if the cat is alive or not until we open the box. Hobbes" thought experiment is to imagine us without anything that exists in our society no political order, european christian civilization, etc. Hobbes would have pictured indigenous colonies in north america. Fear a natural condition of human nature. War a constant, the more common reality that we face.
