Political Science 1020E Lecture 2: Lecture 2 state of nature- hobbes.docx
26 Mar 2013
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*mc questions to prepare for exams will be asked each class. According to the preferred definition of politics from the last lecture, politics is: Right to command (legitimate rule ~ members of congress, members of parliament, etc) Authoritative groups (agents of the state) police, lawmakers, judges) The right to punish those who disobey (the law) Author of the leviathan (1651) depicting a state of nature (a lawless, order less, anarchist world) >hobbes creates a thought experiment (using imagination hypothetical) Hobbes: society invented states (it is not a natural occurrence but one that developed) >hobbes believes that the state is not intrinsic in human nature (something that aristotle (the father of. >war: hobbes thought that war (he was living during the civil war) would bring about the downfall of the state (government) and subsequently the end of order which protects people from their natural animalistic desires. The state is not perennially violent but everyone is ready to fight.
