JLC-110 FA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sea Monster, Empiricism, The Foundations
21 Oct 2016
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Western legal tradition- hobbes lecture one 10/21/2016 8:29:00 pm. During the new protestant reformation, new orders and foundation are laid. Getting at the idea that the state is the monster, but it is a necessary evil . Book commissioned by the king (monarch) to write about the government. Argues for the basis of legitimate authority is on consent-very radical-had to escape being persecuted: rational consent not explicit consent . Being feared, in a way, makes you stronger. The foundations of the state are good arms and good laws. Hobbe"s view of the natural condition of mankind (war) Nature, the art whereby god made and governs the world than natural . For whose protection and defense it was made to protect - we create the state to protect us- from other people. Knowledge of human nature necessary to govern a group of people. He that is to govern a whole nation no other demonstration (pg.
