Zusammenfassung der Ressource
3. Describe the state of nature for
Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.
- Hobbes
- We are in constant warfare with one another. Every man against every man.
- Authority will protect and preserve mens lives and properties
- There can be no economy because men pursue their
own self interest
- Sovereign law limits humans to join together as a common enemy
- Humans are rational and pursue own desires efficiently
- willing to submit to authority to preserve their lives
- Locke
- State of "peace, goodwill, mutual assistance, and preservation." All men have
equal rights and are free by nature
- Property is not secure
- Private property is created by mixing personal
labour with raw materials of nature
- You cannot take
more property than
your own fair share
- Nature belongs to all mankind
- This creates a need for government.
Protection of property and bodies
- governed by natural laws
- In the state of nature
there is absence of
power to maintain
natural laws
- Unlimited sovereignty is contrary to natural law
- Government is only sovereign when fulfilling its purpose to protect and uphold the natural laws
- State of nature=state of liberty
- To maintain liberty with a government, man does not
surrender all rights to a single power, but gives over the
power of justice to a government
- Government is formed through consent
- Rousseau
- Happy and equal
- Lost in modern civilization
- The General Will upholds happiness and equality
- The state and Law are a byproduct of the General Will
- Freedom is obeying yourself
- The General Will
- Will of the majority of citizens.
- Obeying the general will implies that you are obeying yourself
- If you obey yourself, you are free
- Private property=greed and competition
- Represents "Fall from Grace" out of the state of nature.
Happiness and equality were lost
- Surrender rights and consent to the "General Will"
- Part with natural rights to gain civil liberites
- "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains."
- State of
Nature = no
government
and no law
- Evaluate how their ideas
affect the terms of the
social contract theory
that emerge from it.