Political Theory

Aristotle

Telos
Eudaimonia
Virtue–>like goods of soul
Polity
Democracy
Monarchy
Aristocracy
Tyranny
Oligarchy
External goods vs. goods of the body vs. goods of the soul
Good
Machiavelli
Fortuna
Virtu
Types of principalities
Fox vs. lion
Honesty, liberality, and magnanimity
Smith
Division of labor
Propensity
Hobbes
Liberty/freedom = the absence of opposition (external impediments of motion)
p. 223
Freeman = he that in those things which by his strength & wit
p. 223
civil law: the rules which the Commonwealth hath commanded to every subject to use to
distinguish between right & wrong
p. 231
Rex in parlamento
p. 234
fundamental law: necessary for the Commonwealth to stand

-subjects are bound to uphold
p. 245
lex civilis & jus civile
p.245
jubeo; injungo: I command and enjoin
p.245
dedi, concessi: I have given, I have granted phrase of a charter
p.245
safety meant not as bare preservation, but also all other contentments of life
p.253

good law
p.260
Perspicuity
p.260-1
laws of nature
awe
diffidence
justice
covenant
person, representitive, author vs. authority
Locke
Natural liberty of man (323)
Liberty of man (323)
Law: (in its true notion) is not so much the limitation as the direction of a free and
intelligent agent to his proper interest & prescribes no farther than general good of those
under that law (336)
Freedom ≠ liberty for every man to do what he lists but a liberty to dispose his person,
activities, possessions, & whole property within the allowance of those laws under which he is
& therein to not be subject to the arbitrary will of another but freely follow his own (337)
Tacit consent (363)
Vacuis locis (363)
Commonwealth (367) = civitas = any independent community
Federative power (373)
Prerogative (378-383) the power of to act according to discretion, for the public good,
w/o prescription of the law (and sometimes even against it)
-(382) power of doing public good w/o a rule
unjust conqueror (386)