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POLI 202 Midterm Davis
POLI 202 Midterm Davis
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POLI 202 Midterm DavisHobbes - ANS-Trying to figure out how to get into a social organization
Apply the method of science to the study of politics
contradictory significations: when the thoughts contradict each other
Science: consequences of words that are rightly joined together
Method of Science - ANS-Everything comes back to motion
Religion - ANS-Spirit: immaterial Body
Immaterial: no physical properties
body: physical Properties
3 sources of natural equality (humans are generally equal in these aspects) -
ANS-Strength (in the sense that the weaker could defeat the stronger)
Prudence (wisdom)
Ability
3 causes of conflict/war - ANS-Competition
Diffidence (despair; know you can be defeated so you attack first)
Glory (joy of their own pleasure)
What is Hobbes trying to figure out? - ANS-what happens when there is no centralized
political authority. He thinks about war like a rainy day-not raining all the time but it could
start at any moment
Does Hobbes believe in no justice in a state of nature - ANS-1. if no common power,
there is no law
2. if there is no law, then no actions violate the law
3. an action is only unjust if it violates the law
4. a state of nature is a condition where there is no common power
5. so nothing is unjust in a state of nature
Felicity - ANS-Succession of one desire after another
Love - ANS-Desire + the thing that satisfies the desire
2 kinds of rights - ANS-liberty and claim
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