Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Political Philosophy, Euclidean Geometry
8 Jul 2014
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In the modern political era, democracy means everything and therefore means nothing. Theory is meant to resolve complexities, such as how the same person can be simultaneously regarded as both a terrorist and a freedom fighter. The goal of theory is to problematize simple concepts, because taken to their most extreme end, everything becomes problematic. Hobbes is about: nature, law, peace, survival, and the commonwealth . Leviathan is written to get england out of civil war and impose unity on those who are not inclined to it. Machiavelli and hobbes both believed that humans sought ever-greater power; hobbes construed power as your present means to achieve some future good; the exercise of power is the use and acting on of your passions. Hobbes is machiavelli made scientific>> a science of man, and a science of society; hobbes believed he was writing a civil and moral science .
