POLI1041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fiduciary, Meritocracy, Aristocracy
20 Jun 2016
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Essay on the origin of civil government: plato/machiavelli, assumption that before government there was only darkness, only within a political system could people be civilized human beings. A. 2. believed that people came out of nothing to sign a social contract in order to form a civil society or government: wrote the leviathan. 1651 refers to the state state has to be this big powerful giant known as the philosopher of power also a rela pessimist. B. 5. a) through and through: concerned with the origin of the state human beings are miserable. C. 2. we are equal because we are all equally miserable. C. 3. ultimate proof of our equality is equal capacity to kill one another. C. 3. d) even a small statured person has the capacity to kill someone else physical ability but also the psychological capacity people don"t really have a conscience and are capable of anything. Society tries to instill in us the idea of right and wrong.
