Poli 202 Midterm 1
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Two kinds of motion - ANS-(Hobbes) - Vital: automatic from our body
Voluntary guided by appetites and aversions.
(Hobbes) Good and Evil - ANS-Good: object of appetites
Evil: object of aversions
(Hobbes) Glory - ANS-Imagining of your on power. justified confidence
(Hobbes) vainglory - ANS-confidence unjustified
(Hobbes) Felicity - ANS-Being successful in what we want. Never satisfied since we
always want more.
(Hobbes) Natural Equality - ANS-Exists in a state of nature. Inequality comes from civil
law.
Prudence - ANS-we gain experience over time
Competition - ANS-Same wants - equality makes the winner unclear.
Diffidence - ANS-Another cause of war where one side attacks another for safety and/or
reputation. We both know competition is possible. If I wait until you attack, I am put in a
bad position. If I attack first, I am in a better position. But you know that I know that one
of us could attack first. DISTRUST. Attack for the sake of Safety. mutual distrust of being
attacked
(Hobbes) sovereign - ANS-society consents to give power to sovereign
Hobbes types of sovereign - ANS-Monarchy, Democracy, Aristocracy
Personation - ANS-authorizing someone else to act on your behalf
(Hobbes) Freedom - ANS-absence of impediments even with a sovereign
(Hobbes) state of nature - ANS-War - Before entering into a social contract. Nothing is
unjust because there are no laws
, (Hobbes) state of war - ANS-Nature - free to do anything to help you survive
(Locke) Freedom - ANS-state of nature. Can't harm yourself or others. right to ourselves
(Locke) Equality - ANS-everyone equal in a state of nature. No one has to obey others
(Locke) state of nature - ANS-No duty to others - law of nature
Lockes law of nature - ANS-Bound to preserve yourself and others. You can only punish
others when they get in the way of your own preservation
(Locke) Property - ANS-Gain it from labor. Can't gain too much.
Consent - ANS-Locke - people consent to leave state of nature.
(Locke) Toleration - ANS-Not persecuting those who you disagree with. Protect others
ideals.
(Locke) Authority - ANS-magistrate has authority over civil matters, not religious.
Physical man - ANS-in the state of nature
Metaphysical man - ANS-can think about broader issues over ones self
(Rousseau) - state of nature - ANS-not corrupted by society. Total freedom.
(Rousseau) - inequality - ANS-comes from cooperation on a large scale. Leads to war.
Pity - ANS-(Rousseau) - exists in nature and normally. concern for others
Self-love - ANS-(Rousseau) 2/2 of natural sentiments. helps to preserve species
Stag-Hunt - ANS-(Rousseau) his version of the prisoner's dilemma - hunting stag with
cooperation, or catching a rabbit which is worth less, but doesn't need cooperation
Comparison - ANS-(Rousseau) - from cooperation, leads to a state of war.
Division of labor - ANS-(Rousseau) evolution of society. Family, greater interaction
between humans. Technology
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