[GOV 312L] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (23 pages long!)
30 Mar 2017
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When you talk about rights, you"re always taking a side: for or against, never neutral, making assumptions. If you are a proponent of rights, you probably think something good comes out of them: they help us achieve certain standards. Liberalism (not the way it is used today: john locke, thomas hobbes, rights tradition, characteristics. Human beings are rational and equal possess natural rights. Legitimacy only achieved through consent of the governed. Must work within the bounds set by the people being governed. Pre-rights (since human kind 1600s: thomas aquinas. Looked at endpoint of human life (virtue) Said we need to live in a certain way to achieve this end point. Said everyone knows we need to be living this way- that"s why you. Era of rights (1600s-1700s) sometimes feel guilty: scientific revolution around this time. Locke and hobbes = humanists: religious wars. Basically, hobbes and locke were living in chaos. Without rights, no one respects each other.
