SJST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Roman Citizenship, Body Politic, English Civil War
11 May 2016
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Mills states that it is not always true. Everyone has a point of view or position subjectivity. In academics we try and move beyond our subjectivity to some objective reality. Background: thomas hobbes social contract. There was a rebellion in england when he first wrote (the. Trying to present a new theory of government and society beyond the civil war. He developed a political theory known as social contract. His major work was around the leviathan (great sea monster. He calls the state a giant sea monster a leviathan. The state should be more powerful than any one individual. He argues in the state of nature everyone is nearly competitive, aggressive. In the state of nature we all fear other people. You may start to fear other people if they are stronger than you. Everyone starts to fear everyone else because you are trying to take their stuff and they are trying to take your stuff.
