Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Political Philosophy, Leviathan, Root Mean Square
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Chapter 1: the state of nature pp. What would life be like in a natural state? a world without government. : think political institutions: central government, local government, the police, law court. Thursday, september 8, 2016 theory of conservation of motion => humans always searching, never at rest. Golden rule"- do unto others as you would have them do unto you . Collective rationality- best for each individual on the assumption that everyone else will act the same way. Individual rationality- is to attack others dont obey laws of nature in every circumstance state of nature people spend all their time grubbing for substance and ghting battles. Natural reason => nature has given things richly => there is plenty of land, room for everyone men are more danger to being lost eventually state of nature is unbearable. Rousseau human beings are motivated by the desire for self-preservation everyone has an innate repugnance to see his kind suffer.