POL200Y5 Chapter Notes -Omnipotence, Class Conflict
22 Apr 2014
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Or is it a war of all against all: chapter 5: locke"s theory of property, the natural right to private property, limits to appropriation, the introduction of money, the two-stage theory of the state of nature. Filmer"s argument was that the king has absolute power, which comes from god alone. Chapter 1: there is no such thing as absolute authority. We can take away the authority of the sovereign if they fail to impost the common good: freedom and equality are his key messages human beings are born free, absolute government can never be legitimate. We can never alienate our right to be free. Absolutism runs fundamentally counter to the basic natural fact that all human beings are born free. All governments only exist by the consent of the governed: since we are free our consent to coversion is required, we are all always free to revoke our consent to all those arrangements that covorse us.
