POLSCI 2O06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Starch
25 Jan 2018
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We need to start from starch, get rid of how we think about politics and human beings. We need to diagnose the root of the problem; why do we need political authority: there must be something about us that make us need politics, why do we need power to govern us. It is in our very nature to conflict. State of nature: we take away the laws, moral codes, and rules of society, what would happen. *22:00-26:00 3 things to listen for (cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1009)(cid:894) e(cid:448)eryo(cid:374)e lookth their professio(cid:374), or their (cid:374)a(cid:373)e(cid:895) The state of nature is a state of war: there is nothing to prevent us from fighting. 39:-41: without a government, we can never know what you are going to do, you cannot trust someone like that, making you insecure. We need political authority to avoid the hell that is the state of nature: we all have a invested interest in the protection of a sorvein state, 46:50.
