POL 2108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tyrant, Grave Danger, Civics
4 Mar 2014
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4 (boetie on language), 8, 10, 13-15, 17-19, 21. Powers divided mutually destroy each other (p. 214) The power of the mighty has no foundation but in the opinion and belief of the people. Hobbes was the true founding father of liberalism. Leo strauss: conflict/factions (p. 154) dangerous books (p. 215) vain-glory as source of conflict (p. 194) If all of us are bound by this contract, the sovereign is not. I give up my right to the sovereign: submit will and judgment to the sovereign. An assembly of men creates multiple points of entry for corruption into the system: sovereign power ought to be absolute, regardless of the regime. 21: the liberty of subjects, machiavelli collective freedom, hobbes" definition of individual liberty: the absence of external impediments, freedom of the individual, p. 136 you are free when there are no external impediments limiting your motion.
