PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - The Technique, Egalitarianism
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Hobbes: leviathan, part 1: thomas hobbes (5 april 1588-4 december 1679, life and times. Scotland at war with rest of great britain. Wrote leviathan to provide some sort of reassurance for the government: at last: philosophy written in english, materialist, the project of the leviathan: Everything is made up of things in motion. A) to establish a rational and secular basis for government. B) to assess political systems scientifically," that is, through first principles. Hence the scope and nature and even the extent of government, as a particular kind of social institution, should be understood by analyzing the agreements that would be so made: the conceptual connections here are as follows. Of course, it also had a political function, namely to combat other accounts of human society (such as divine right), and so to provide an ideology for the rising middle class.
