PHI 1000C Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Human Nature
26 Jun 2017
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Laws are natural restrictions of your right: law is reason. Ch 16: authorize someone else, we are responsible for them. 18: solution, human nature is the basic problem, how we solve it, is by entering into society (common wealth) with each other. We transfer our rights to one person the sovereign. Power is absolute & unified: no point in separating the power, b/c military will win, power decides, laws are derived from power, laws are based on rights, so rights are derived from power. We only have power if we"re unified (pg. Getting a new sovereign, for the fact that the sovereign has lost his power and failed to fulfill his function. Commonwealth- we can trust each other: we don"t have the power to do what ever we want, we all have property, and don"t have to fear that someone will take it, for it"s the law.
