POLS 250 Lecture Notes - Toleration, Absolution, Limited Government
5 Sep 2013
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Pols 250 fall term notes: secret slides part 4 (locke) Secret slide 1: two treatise of government (1689) Hobbes: no 3d option between unconditional obedience to sovereign and civil war. (unlimited power) Secret slide 2: state of nature continued. If state of nature is too negative, then any state is better than that (hobbes) If state of nature is too positive, why leave state of nature? (locke) Inconveniences in state of nature arise because of different interpretation of law of nature. We need a single common, known interpretation of the law of nature. Secret slide 3: problems with tacit consent. 1) consent can be given unintentionally by simply living in a certain territory.
