PHL 400 Lecture 4: Lecture on John Locke note version
7 Dec 2015
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Origins of the liberal state: hobbes and locke. A state founded on liberty (final and unquestioned) Everything the state does is for that liberty. A state determined by its ability to protect. Hobbes: we are either innately free or our freedom is something that we are part of ourselves. The state in the city is perfect and beautiful. We are worse than animals if we are not in the state. We cannot imagine what human beings are outside of the state. **imagine a human being outside of any state or social apparatus** Why do we so willingly submit ourselves to the many, or the kind. For hobbes there is pleasure and pain, hungry and not hungry (very black and white) The ego in the state of our desires. We can see this from our basic primal desires. How and why we are free. (outside of society there is no just and unjust.
