POLS 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Exclusion Crisis, Divine Right Of Kings, Absolute Monarchy
27 Nov 2016
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Argued that there is a certain order of things, we can understand this through divine truths. Reason is about getting to the order of things. We"re bound together through the creation of god. Some level of natural property acquisition is normal. Unlimited property acquisition becomes a good under natural law: overview of political project, locke + hobbes c)political context. Princes have their power absolute and divine rule. These different associations are of a different nature not just a size and it goes against the divine right of nature theory. Power of the magistrate is the power of the sovereign. We"re slaves in the sense that we don"t have the right to: locke + political power, locke"s state of nature. About human nature and things that we are naturally endowed with, ie. rights, equality and freedom. What life would be like outside of governemnt: apolitical condition but not amoral or asocial. Our natural condition is apolitical (life outside of government)
