Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Reasonable Person
26 Sep 2018
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Political science 2237e introduction to political theory. We have complete liberty: this is da(cid:374)gerous (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it"s (cid:374)ot just you who has this liberty, so does everyone else, thus, this is the worst situation imaginable, this is a condition of nasty, brutish, short, solitude etc. Laws of nature: the first two laws of nature are most important (know only the first 2, (cid:862)e(cid:448)ery (cid:373)a(cid:374) ought to e(cid:374)dea(cid:448)our pea(cid:272)e as far as he has hope of o(cid:271)tai(cid:374)i(cid:374)g it (cid:863) (pg. 324, an oath is not enough to have confidence. If you ever start to believe that a person is not going to obey the covenant or its not enforceable or things may change, you can abandon it: the laws only oblige us internally. 331. (cid:862)a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:448)e(cid:374)a(cid:374)ts, (cid:449)ithout the s(cid:449)ord, are (cid:271)ut (cid:449)ords (cid:863: pg. 323 if there is a common power, the agreement is not void. So, what is the common power that we need to make these agreements unvoidable.
