PHILOS 1B03- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 41 pages long!)

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Individual, community: law and civil disobedience, obligated to dis/obey laws based on conscience, conditions and procedures for civil disobedience, toleration, enemy of the state or terrorist (state of war) Hobbes & locke: physical equality: humans are basically all equal physically, we all have physical limitations, you don"t have ultimate power because of your physique. If you can do something, you have the right to do it. Individuals should be left alone to do what they want. The nature of woman: john-jaque, writes on how women are to be submissive to men, are there to please them. In our civil society, women do not enjoy the same privileges: violence and rape are prevalent. Increase pleasure, decrease pain: greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people, the duty to obey the state lasts only as long as the benefits of obedience outweigh the costs of disobedience.