POL SCI 10 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tyrant, Human Nature, Leviathan
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Political order is funded, artificially, on human nature. Human nature is passionate: aggressive, defensive, vain. We are all the same but this sameness must not result in political equality. Focus on: nature, the body, motion, hindrance, violence, competition. The passions are realistic responses to diff situations: fear is natural, life is a race. Hobbes thinks human nature is fundamentally aggressive: desire to get what others have (attack), defense, concern with image -- in humans is bad. Human nature is pathetic -- pathos, humans behave on account of their emotions and civil society needs to deal w them, tame and manage them; human life is compared to a race, constantly running against others. Virtues and emotions are aspects of this competition. Leviathan, chapter xiv: of the first and second natural laws and of contracts. The right of nature . conceive to be the aptest . You cant live in a society if you have the right to do whatever you want.
