PPAS 4070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Absolute Monarchy, Legal Positivism, Tabula Rasa

• School: York University
• Department: Public Policy and Administration Studies
• Course: PPAS 4070
• Professor: Naomi

Document Summary

Think in terms of why are these concepts still relevant , ex. If you can answer the questions from the back of the book you"re gooood surround conscious collectivism. Weber concept of power , types of authorities (marx vscweber power) Says laws were implemented to serve the rich than others will oppose this. The ideas of law are to regulat, sometimes there unfair bc the regulate on the lines of race and class. If your thinking of locke who is a religious man , its really thru human reasons, he thought humans ere born on a blank slate and the society embedes calues in you. He said if you feel like the text is god"s words you"re gonna assume the people who follow the rule obviously believe in god. God gives humans reasons is what most cultures, so according to natural law god gave u the availability to think.