Summary of philosophy of right (õiguse filosoofia kokkuvõte)
Democracy?
Rousseau: aristocracy, if not hereditary. (monarchy represents particular will)
Authority in the social contract
Hobbes: the sovereign
Locke: The law over the sovereign
Rousseau: The general will over the Law and over the sovereign
Human life
Hobbes: sovereign can take life
Locke: life can only be taken to prevent from being killed and after that who takes the life is
subjected to the judge.
property
Hobbes: A person may protect his property by law but not if the soveregin demands it
Locke: Sovereign has to protect property; you make property by adding labour; you can
accumulate as much of it as possible
Rousseau: property is the source of all evil
Hegel: basis of individual rights lies in property
Hobbes leviathan
Part one: of man
XIII
mans natural state is a state of war. Life in a state of nature is brutish and short.
Man's natural traits are:
-competision which makes him go to war for gain