PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Totalitarianism
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People get together and agree to give up some of their liberties. In exchange they get something else this contract forms a government. We have an obligation to obey the government (as long as it keeps us safe) because we transferred all our rights to it. The government fixes the shortcomings of the state of nature. If the government violates contract, it loses its legitimacy and the people can rightful rebel. Laws of nature - hobbs, leviathan law of. Every man ought to endeavor peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining it; and when he cannot obtain it, that he may seek, and use, all helps, and advantages of war. Be willing, when others are so too to lay down this right to all things, and be contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men again himself. Hobbs believes we should have a totalitarian dictatorship.
