Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Creatures 2

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2237E
• Professor: VandeWetering

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Caritas = charity or love: (cid:862)p(cid:396)ese(cid:396)(cid:448)i(cid:374)g all (cid:373)a(cid:374)ki(cid:374)d(cid:863) (cid:894)pa(cid:396)a 11(cid:895) defend people who are being oppressed versus those who are anti-social. We must punish transgressions of the laws of nature. This is an obligation we must everyone else even in a state of nature because were created by god and have an obligation to him and to everyone. We also ha(cid:448)e this o(cid:271)ligatio(cid:374) to ou(cid:396) self, it"s i(cid:374) ou(cid:396) i(cid:374)te(cid:396)est (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it"s the (cid:396)ight thi(cid:374)g to do, will get us into heaven and prevents us from living in a state of chaos. For hobbes, state of nature is state of (cid:449)a(cid:396) (cid:862)(cid:374)ast(cid:455), (cid:271)(cid:396)utish, sho(cid:396)t(cid:863). For locke, it is not that bad, and not a state of war, we can live quite happily in the state of nature: for locke, we cannot do whatever we want in the state of nature.