PHIL1071 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Slippery Slope
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If we didn"t have an absolute ruler to control the government, we would kill each other. Leviathan: a ruler should be powerful enough to be beyond challenge; this is the only thing that keeps us from tearing us apart. Hobbes sees that that absolute government is the only way we will survive without killing each other. Defends for a philosophical and biblical constitutionalist government. God gave adam natural rights then gave them to every human being (life, liberty, property) People get involved in a social contract to protect life, liberty, and property. The point of government is to protect these natural rights, if these natural rights are not preserved; citizens have the right to overthrow the government. People can revert back to the state of nature and recreate the government that protects the life, liberty, and property of people. We have a government to protect us from ourselves. We have a government to help protect/preserve our.
