SOC SCI H1F Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Absolute Monarchy, Thomas Hobbes, Aerosol Paint

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOC SCI H1F
• Professor: William R Schonfeld

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Locke: inconveniences of the state of nature and consent to join civil society. Locke effectively took the objection we might raise and says, hey, i agree with you, but an absolute monarch is not the solution because that monarch would be a human being and suffer from the same issues. A debate with thomas hobbes and his work, the leviathan: ho(cid:271)(cid:271)es" argument: State of nature is a state of (cid:862)(cid:449)a(cid:396) e(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455) (cid:373)a(cid:374) agai(cid:374)st e(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455) (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:863) The notion that the effective form of government is the divine right of monarchy: but locke wants to argue against divine right. He talks a(cid:271)out the state of (cid:374)atu(cid:396)e that o(cid:448)e(cid:396)laps (cid:449)ith ho(cid:271)(cid:271)es" (cid:271)ut is (cid:373)o(cid:396)e (cid:373)uted, (cid:374)ot a (cid:862)state of (cid:449)a(cid:396)(cid:863) Defines a state of nature that is less brutal than the hobbesian statement. Thus, there is a need for a system with agreed upon, accepted, legislative judicial and executive authority. We have differences between those different branches of government.