MMW 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Age Of Enlightenment, Heredity, Body Politic
16 Oct 2017
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Mmw 14 lecture 4 the enlightenment. In absence of fear of common power, war of all against all: no right and wrong, no justice and injustice. Freedom: right of nature is the liberty each of us has to use power for preservation of our own nature, not to be abused/attacked, as would happen in the state of nature, absence of external impediments. Property: no (cid:858)p(cid:396)op(cid:396)iety(cid:859), (cid:374)o (cid:373)i(cid:374)e a(cid:374)d thi(cid:374)e disti(cid:374)(cid:272)t. From the state of nature to civil society: the contract: mutual transferring of right, we will agree to be governed in exchange for protection, the governor will agree to govern in exchange for protecting the people. English bill of rights: 1689, glorious revolution: king ineffective, replaced without any bloodshed by william and mary. If a ruler has a huge army at their disposable, they can use it against their own people.
