HISTORY 186 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Stuart Mill, Hugo Grotius, Cath Database
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Current/ modern politics revolve around international relations and everyone being a part of nation states. Peace of westphalia: the new system perhaps started around 1648 with the peace of. Westphalia, which ended the religious conflicts between the roman cath and protestants. Emergence of separate nation states, religious plurality of states (like catholic spain and protestant netherlands. ) New state structure: organized around a central secular power- political court. Richelieu- argues that the state should not be subject to the same moral rules as ordinary humans, as it has no possibility to attain . Leads france into alliance with protestants- accused with betraying the catholic church. New conception of legitimacy for the state, grounded in the social contract. Declares that life w/o politics is nasty, short, and brutal and we would be in constant mortal ferral. It is necessary to create states that will secure security and regulate permissible social behavior.
