POL 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Thought Experiment, Autarky, Whigs (British Political Party)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2107
• Professor: Wolfgang Koerner

Document Summary

Political thought: charles the second wanted to restore absolute monarchy, locke and shaftesbury ee"s to france then holland and returns in 1688. You can"t rebel against a political power if you don"t know know a just one: we resist when a leader becomes a tyrant. It says, tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right. tyranny is when the governor acts in his own self interest rather than the people"s: this is when above political authority is not above the law. This compares to hobbes, in which hobbes argues we have the leviathan to create order and act as a super power over us. There is no relationship between the citizenship and this power because we give up our power to this greatest power, and therefore has absolute power. {watch video on difference of locke and hobbes: the state of nature has a lot of nature to govern people. If everyone were equal we can create liberty.