SOC SCI H1F Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Helen Gahagan Douglas, English Civil War, Leviathan
17 Feb 2017
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3 classical social contract theories: hobbes, locke, rousseau. King charles i and the emergence of the short-lived dictatorship of oliver. Humans in state of nature to be motivated by self interests and desirous of self preservation. Humans in state of nature with no civil government pose a physical danger to one another. Objected his acceptance of doctrine of materialism: speculated that god exists, but supreme being must be corporal. Defining human machine: consistent with his commitment to materialism, hobbes took the position that human beings were completely material, account of human mind and knowledge was empiricist. Locke: essay concerning human understanding, two treatises of government, letter concerning toleration, wanted to do for philosophy what newton did for physics, distinction between primary and secondary sense qualities. All knowledge derived from experience that transmitted from senses. We see world in very narrow range of electromagnetic energy.
