POLI 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Negative Liberty, Utopia, Egotism
21 Jun 2017
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Sovereign: head of state known as leviathan with absolute, indivisible authority over the state, church, curriculum, opinion, etc. To save us from our state of nature, humans need someone to enforce our contract to do to others as we would ourselves. Justice: leviathan, the decider, reconciler, decides what is fair in any dispute and punishments (crime is an example). The people cannot be trusted to be impartial in disputes, which is why we need a head of state which choses all the rules. Datum: belief, information drawn from the senses (vs. teleology). A philosophy of wrong and right decided purely from stimuli. Good/evil: right and wrong are equivalent to pleasure, likes, pain, dislike, according to. Axiom: improvable statement, obvious, self-evident truth (ex: water is wet) Warre: the conflict, mistrust, pain and death that result from no leviathan (no supreme authority). Our state outside of civilization where we fight over resources and bring pain, death, and misery to each other.
