Political Science 2237E Lecture : January 29-John Locke.docx

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To understand hobbes, understand: the civil war, what the law is, and what would put them into a condition where different people would accept the same directives. The safety of the subjects is the highest law -guiding principle of hobbes. Liberty is what is left over after all needed rules have been made>>this is a political theory generated by a condition of civil war. The ideal political rule is built on moral and civil science as well as an understanding of the laws of nature; in other words, a complete, comprehensible set of defensible laws. Positive law/negative liberty-what"s left over where the sovereign has omitted legislation; liberty is the absence of law. If something is necessary for the commonwealth according to the king, then it cannot be resisted unless it pertains to preservation of self. Hobbes was trying to write euclid: incontrovertible principles of a civil science; when hobbes defines a term, he consistently adheres to the definition.

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