POL 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Contract Theory, Due Process, Primitive Communism

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 307
• Professor: Sylvia Thompson

Document Summary

Enlightenment gave people confidence could change the world/invent some plan (ideology) Created disruptive force and stress in society and between people. Radicalism, liberalism, conservatism, reactionary comes out of enlightenment. Birth/growth of democracy as a ideology and political system. He thought humans were inherently bad, impulsive, poorly behaved. People were always afraid, cant trust others so it made them aggressive and violent. Human nature was so aggressive that people cant work together, war (man v. - traded natural freedom power and rights for obedience and social order. Society and human beings also could never advance. Surrendered their freedom and power they would have possessed without a. No government, no knowledge of face of earth, no arts, no time, no letters, no man) Leviathan: life of man was solitary, nasty, brutish, and short . During this struggle for survival, it is impossible for society and humans to advance society, continual fear and danger.