CRI300H1 Lecture 1: (1) intro + the imperative for order
2 Dec 2018
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Lecture 1: introduction + the imperative for order. You have to punish bad people to deter and convince them to behave and obey the law. When someone commits a crime, in some sense it"s a cry for help and they"re in need of more attention/counselling, so it can be rehabilitative and reform. Hobbes" leviathan published it in 1651, after a decade in exile after the english civil. His account of the state of nature and what it takes to get out of it. Son is no central government/power and no legitimacy to enforce laws; nasty and brutish. Why son is bad: scarcity of resources. Punishment makes order possible argues against locke"s critique: states can be tyrannical and kings aren"t perfect. worst that can happen is still immeasurably better. Humans are social - ants/bees don"t operate like us as we are rational beings.
