Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Uch, Oligarchy, Concupiscence

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2237E
• Professor: Richard Vande Wetering

Document Summary

Jesus comes around and creates the new testament (focus on gospels - not the morbidity of. Locke is optimistic about human beings: church: too grand a term for locke - also a contract (entering this relationship is voluntary and a matter of consent) Locke is not impressed w/ big religious organizations, bureaucracies and doctrines. " [s]uch (cid:373)e(cid:374) are (cid:374)ot u(cid:374)der the ties of the co(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) law of reason, [and] have no other rule, but that of force and violence. " (para 16) *caution of getting out of the state of nature: locke believes the state of war can exist w/in a society - ample opportunity for a state of war to develop (seeks to control govt. & protect people from the govt. we create: not absolute, necessary or desirable like hobbes" govt. (irrational for locke to choose an absolutist government, dictator worse than being back in the state of nature.