ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Contract Theory, John Locke, Zeitgeist

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Science, Policy, And Management
• Course: ESPM 50AC
• Professor: k.Spreyer

Document Summary

Lecture 9 revolutionary values: property, liberty and being american - outline. Today: locke: a closer look at private property & 1st rights, american interpretations of the lockean social contract, the contradictory nature of american democracy, models of incorporation. John locke: second treatise on government (1689: contract theory, context: social and institutional change, liberal social contract theory, 1688 glorious revolution in england. Nature exited in anarchy state and human nature. God church interpret god"s bible individual act morally and not free to explore the conscious of god intimately_ second table of 10th amendment obligation to one"s neighbor. Individual intimate with god and relation to god and their neighbors. Godly community; act in a godly way, to notice they are doing well. Happen to be pious succeed in the market in that time. Natural law: natural right to one"s own person. God gives nature to serve god; ppl make it productive to serve god.