POLS 2910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Exclusion Crisis, French Revolution, Parliamentary Sovereignty
20 Apr 2016
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Lockes second treatise, hobbes and locke, political connections, political context: restoration 1660, exclusion crisis 1679, whigs and tories, publication of patriarchal (sir robert filmer divine right theory , locke"s challenge (1st treatise, what is political power (ch. 1: locke and the new science, natural condition ch. Locke just like hobbes is arguing more against traditionalists. This makes it nicer to read because its not so grim and scary, as it is reading hobbes but also makes his arguments a bit fuzzy. Locke is also very much influenced by new scientific method. Both arguing against traditionalists that political authority is based on consent. Take radical premise, individuals are by nature free and equal. Both argue the reason we form a political association is out of self interest there is nothing natural about the state - product of human artifices. We consent to turn over some power, because it benefits us to do so.
