PHI 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Representative Democracy, Social Inequality, Sand Art And Play

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 105
• Professor: Andrew Dobbyn

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Announcements: papers due on saturday, if you want to hand in draft, make sure to do it a day ahead. An imposter stated the land was his and simple minded people believed him. There is no natural claim or right of property. This only comes from human or social law, not natural law. Problems begin to arise when becoming in control of property. In the state of nature, you are only entitled to what you"re currently occupying, if you leave a piece of land its no longer yours. You need society for property and property for society in order for everyone to agree. Example: someone knocking down your sand castle you put labor into. Once you have property, you need laws so that people respect what you made. If your state doesn"t have legitimacy or authority then theres no state. States only form if there"s a way of being governed. Property is an unnatural law, need society to exist.