POL 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Divine Command Theory, Thought Experiment
25 Jul 2018
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The state of modern democracy: he aimed for peace, security and stability, he is inspired by scienti c inquiry, studied human nature, and wants to nd the basic political fact. Good and evil are re ections of our desires: death means pleasure is gone, wants to discover natural laws, and we nd them using reason, we are forbidden to do things that are destructive to our lives. We have a right to preserve ourselves and protects ourselves from harm: the reason for the individual to protect their interests. The classic thought experiment, which dominates liberal thinking. The leviathan: the leviathan outlines why we should obey government authority even with it"s imperfections. Hobbes was anxious about people being able to dispose rulers if they weren"t satis ed with them: hobbes tried merging the social contract theory with the defence of total obedience and traditional authority.
