Anthropology 4400E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Stuart Mill, Self-Ownership, Classical Liberalism
14 Apr 2015
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Notes to part one-the nature of the state. It may seem odd to ask what is the nature of the state but it is a question of first importance in any aspect of the study of politics . Our understanding of this concept, in some measure at least, determines our views on what governments can or ought to do in our lives including their role in the economy. The question of what the state is is linked to the question of when the state came into existence. Most commonly the state is seen as a modern institution unknown in the ancient and medieval worlds. The last of these, coercion, has been at the heart of much political thought. Hobbes, max weber, robert dahl and marx as a definition of the state while others such as. Green and rousseau have argued that some idea of morality, right and duty form the basis of the state.
