[POL 118B] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (48 pages long!)

• School: UC-Davis
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 118B
• Professor: Robert Taylor

Document Summary

Office hours t/r 2-4 pm in kerr 676. Social contract: mutual agreement among a group of persons to found a political society and submit themselves to its rules: dominant way of justifying political institutions, obligations in modern western political theory, compared to a regular contract: Pre-politi(cid:272)al state (cid:894)(cid:862)state of (cid:374)ature(cid:863)(cid:895): (cid:449)hat (cid:455)ou (cid:272)o(cid:374)tra(cid:272)t out of to rea(cid:272)h a legitimate political society. *co(cid:374)se(cid:374)t: (cid:374)ot histori(cid:272)al or e(cid:454)pli(cid:272)it (cid:894)(cid:374)ot a (cid:862)sig(cid:374) o(cid:374) the dotted li(cid:374)e(cid:863)(cid:895), it is hypothetical consent (what would have been agreed to under certain [morally significant] conditions), voluntaristic to obey due to moral force. Terms: what you give up (certain rights or liberties) to the political society + what you get in return. Enforcement: in order to se(cid:272)ure the so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)o(cid:374)tra(cid:272)t"s ter(cid:373)s- the task of go(cid:448)"t or state. Three social-contract traditions: hobbesian (classical, lockean (medieval, rousseauean (modern) Anarchy main concern, undivided sovereignty: hobbes believes divided anarchy will lead back to the state of nature.