POL S 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Thomas Hobbes, Authoritarianism
20 Nov 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Weber wrote that modern society has experience disenchantment, removing religion and monarchy from the world. These institutions have been replaced with impersonal and routinized bureaucracies. Life i(cid:374) the state of (cid:374)ature is (cid:862)(cid:374)asty, (cid:271)rutish a(cid:374)d short(cid:863) An absolute ruler can improve life by removing us from the state of nature. Avoiding the war of all against all justifies despotism. Even non-democratic states rely on a modicum of consent from their studies. There has (cid:374)e(cid:448)er yet (cid:271)ee(cid:374) a politi(cid:272)al syste(cid:373), e(cid:448)e(cid:374) hitler"s germany a(cid:374)d tali(cid:374)"s u r (cid:271)ased e(cid:374)tirely o(cid:374) (cid:272)oer(cid:272)io(cid:374) It might not require the consent of a majority of the population to achieve acquiescence of the rest, but there is always some kind of coalition at the base of any governmental system. Technology can enhance leadership advantages and reduce the threshold size of the coalitions but not to a single individual (1+1>1) If technology were always decisive, why did the us lose our wars in.
