PHLB07H3 Lecture 16: LEC 16.pdf
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Essay: can be handed in as of today, make sure to drop off the hard copy as well. The natural condition is a world without political institutions, a world without a common power to make us behave. A natural right means there are no laws. There"s matter and motion, humans are matter and motion, and before laws, there is a natural condition. There are just people with equal powers as well as their desires: until we take away agreement and rules, we just have a bunch of wild animals, think about cats going around in random places. They have a natural right to everything, they do whatever: if you go out and pick out a ower, the only limit to your freedom would be some sort of obstacle, or an anticipation to one. We"re not going to give up: lions have natural power hierarchies; with human beings it"s just not that way.
