POLI 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Ideal Type, Social Contract, Merchant Prince
11 Apr 2017
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How to approach politics in modern society. Weber: modern state distinguished by its claim of legitimate monopoly over a territory. A modern state claims it as a right, monopoly of legitimate violence within a territory provides legality: characteristic of modernity. Machiavelli: 1469, just decades before the modern state consolidation of state breaking duality consolidation: state becomes powerful enough to become legitimate advisor to the ruling family. The prince: love letter in apology to the ruling family praise of their rule. Mirror of prince: advice to prince to see themselves in the best possible way, but could also be a facade (opposite: the prince not about nobility and humility, what the prince shouldn"t me. Morality and breaking the ideology of renaissance, but not quite a modern state. Machiavelli and hobbes: morality and politics, insulting in politics. Throw out claims of legitimacy, unjust law is not a law at all .
