PSYC 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Free Market, Marginal Utility, Justification For The State
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Intuitive idea behind sc doctrine is people agreeing to something: to authorize a. Sovereign (hobbes) or form a political community and a constitution (locke: sc appeals to ideas of consent, freedom, equality, keeping our promises, etc. 18th & 19th century great economists and great utilitarianists were almost all the same people (smith, ricardo, mill, hume) Hume, born in edinburgh, scotland, is the greatest british philosopher: treatise of human nature (1739), was written while he was 23 to 26 years old, first great utilitarian philosopher. Utilitarianism basically says that all actions are right and laws are just to the degree that they promote greater overall happiness in society, or the world. Hume appeals to his doctrine of utility to criticize locke"s consent thesis. Of the original contract: critique of locke"s social contract. Part 1: [paragraphs 1-19 (cahn 505-509): people don"t believe their political obligations to obey the laws and bear allegiance to their country based on consent.
