Introduction to Philosophy   Wolff Ch  #2, Part  2
Channel: POSC Mkufunzi
Date: 2024-02-15

In the first (introduction) part of Wolff Chapter 1, we discussed the 'State of Nature' and what it means to Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau. In this first part of this chapter, we discuss the state. We review the foundations of the state, the creation of state from societies, the idea of the social contract as discussed by Rousseau and Locke, the characteristics of the state (here we focus more on Weber's rechtsstaat), consent to be governed (or not), anarchism and the role of the state (happiness versus obligation), and what all this means for the modern state. This is in two parts, this is the second part of two parts.