PP110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Harm Principle, Political Philosophy
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Pp110 lesson 12: the government is said to be the soul of the body-politic (because the soul is. Definition of sovereignty; supremacy with respect to power and rank (purpose to protect us, the individual: concord and sedition are supposed to correspond, respectively, to health and sickness. Key: they body-politic can b more less healthy depending on the relation of its parts to one another: the body-politic was created by fiat. That is we made it: it is not god-given or biologically necessary or anything. That means that we can recreate the state anyway we see fit (created by us, for our benefit.
