CAS IR 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Political Philosophy
11 Aug 2018
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Recognize that there are higher principles above human law. All people are equally deserving of equal treatment. Call for believers to respect human dignity. Using the law to help guarantee rights. Law comes from the government not from the society. (codification: helps to make things more predictable, society has put limits on power, principle of government being spelled out clearly, oldest law: code of hammurabi. Britannica: the customs, practices, and rules of conduct of a community that are recognized as binding by the community . Dictionary of social sciences: set of rules established by a political authority in order to govern human affairs within its jurisdiction . Arbitrary rule: leader wakes up one day and declares some new law should happen whatever you want to happen you make it a law. Most societies have developed some sort of codified law. Hobbes (1640: writing just before english civil war monarchy becoming increasingly unpopular.
