POLS 250 Lecture Notes - Eudaimonia, Rationality
5 Sep 2013
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Pols 250 fall term notes: secret slides part 2 (hobbes) Secret slide 1: two parts to exam: Part 1: mc, short fill in the blank, identify author of passage. Part 2: essay question on nussbaums book not for profit . Secret slide 2: quick review ( two kinds of contract theory) Does not concern itself with what is moral. Secular justification that can be for everyone if persuasive. 2) rights based contract theory (locke, rousseau, kant) Secret slide 3: critics of social contract. State shapes your identity- makes you free. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. Talk of rational rights is nonsense on stilts. Rights are the rights of egotistic men. Secret slide 4: aristotle and hobbes. Involves development of virtues, especially our intellectual faculties. Felicity: drive to satisfy our desires, we seek power. Secret slide 5: hobbe"s rough equality clause. Rough because people are not strictly speaking equal.
