POLC71H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Highwayman, Hugo Grotius
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[questions to answer as you read the second treatise:] Right of making laws with penalies of death, and consequently all less penalies. Regulaing and preserving of property and of employing the force of the community. Power and jurisdicion-every man is his own judge. The state of nature is a state of perfect freedom" and equality. Freedom- to be under no restraint but the law of nature: not free to destroy or harm yourself or others, you are duty-bound to preserve yourself. Equality wherein all the power and jurisdicion is reciprocal, no one having more than another. Everyone is also subject to the law of nature which. Locke provides (on my count) three arguments for why anyone in a state of nature can punish those who transgress the law of nature. In the state of nature we can kill murders like a lion or tiger. But there are certain limits on how much we can punish people.
