CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Contract

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1301
• Professor: Prashan Ranasinghe

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Keywords: natural condition of man, rationality, fear, uncertainty, law & liberties (vs. power), property. Of community , in the execution of such laws, and in the defence of the commonwealth from foreign injury and all this only for the public good locke"s de nition of government. Based primarily on reason, where most are rational and base decisions o of reason. Man is in a state of perfect freedom. Exactly the same rights, everyone is equal. Arises when one tries to seise absolute power over another. Do whatever you have to do to defend yourself. *state of nature and state of war are di erent for locke, whereas hobbes says they are the same* Want of a common judge with authority puts all men in a state of nature; force without right upon a man"s person makes a state of war, both where there is and is not a common judge.