BF190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wars Of The Three Kingdoms, Leviathan, Consequentialism
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~ demanded the need of the sovereign to be elected by the people. ~ sovereign required respect and votes of the people (bottom up) ~ believed humans are rational/reasonable creatures (seek peace) ~ duty to give over certain rights to sovereign. ~ theory of human nature and the state of nature. If there were no gov"t or powerful ruler there would be a war of all against all and life would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. This is why we should consent to be ruled by an absolute sovereign. ~ hobbes wrote leviathan in context of british civil war between royalists and parliamentarians. ~ originally written for a teenager (in english) ~ not about the ought but the is. ~ see humans at their base level (selfish and greedy) ~ focus on fear - if i don"t kill them they will kill me first. ~ need for obedience (to a select fewis there some kant in this?)
