PHLB07H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Original Position, Global Warming
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We have con icts, but we stand to gain bene ts from cooperation, and so there are concepts we will agree to. Competition: no enduring hierarchies form and stay/consist, alliances change, even if someone is bigger than someone else, that"s not enough in the natural condition that will help, this makes it rational to distrust everyone else > dif dence. If i can do it, in fact it"s rational for me to do it, so that you don"t make me your slave: it might require me to enslave all of you. Third law of nature: men perform their covenants made, it"s rational, hobbes says, that we obey it, because if we don"t there are such empty words, and again distrust. Agreeing covenants in the state of nature leaves us exposed. You will be the person that no one will want to cooperate with. But, if people do not nd out what you did, you might not do it.
