HUM 2395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Incest Taboo, Truman Doctrine, Security Dilemma
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Thus killing their father and the oldest becomes an alpha male. Brothers wanted to same but the alpha male is the strongest so they form a. The incest taboo is the 1st form of law. Law emerges in the place of the father. Freud said that alpha males desired the mother and his daughters. Transition: freud explains this in his book totem and taboo band and become stronger than the alpha male. Political communities governs in the terms of the law. Iliad love and death is an emotional attachment. I love america; therefore i will kill american enemies. The other: communist (truman doctrine- external aggression and institutional causes), Hobbes law and justice: to have this you need a state. Security dilemma: while one state makes themselves secure it makes the other insecure. It can create stability or it can create situations where there is war trap.
