POL 2108 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Autocracy, Girolamo Savonarola

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2108
• Professor: Sophie Bourgault

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Corruption: tyrants bribe citizens in exchange for ambition, courage ii. iii. iv. v, cyrus turned city into luxurious, lazy city to trick citizens iv. I see no good in having several lords obedience entails consent, therefore, the legitimacy of particular forms of obedience is worth discussing wants to shock 16th century readers, million people being abused and willingly abused by single power his task is to convince the average person that monarchies are not natural one man rule is weird, puzzling, sick denaturalize regimes and institutions (hobbes would agree) p. 8 : people let ourselves be deprived of the best part of our revenues: more often than not tyrant is not very strong or intelligent, our rulers tend to be cowards and weaklings, relates back to the puzzle of voluntary servitude (a million people under the thumb of a twit?, don"t take up arms, just stop obeying you just have to want freedom and then you have it.