POLS 3135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Stuart Mill, Perfectly Clear, Social Darwinism
4 Oct 2017
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Week 2 - theoretical and political foundations of law. Connection between law, politics, and the state - overlapping. Weber"s de nition of the state - more barbaric, classless, politically determination. Greece - not a nation-state but a city-state. Nation-state - a modern understanding of the state and its connection with nationality. City-state did not have much to do with nationality and ethnicity. State as we know it is a modern phenomenon. State as a product of the social division of labour - all members of society exercise particular functions. Certain functions such as the right to bear arms, the right to administer justice, etc. functions performed collectively, not necessarily functions being assigned to particular institutions. Social classes gradually appear as a result of social division of labour. A more complicated relationships requiring institutions to oversee administration of such activity - when these institutions emerge to administer di erent functions in society, foundation of the state is gradually established.
