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machiavelli on War
(Italian city-states at war 1400s-1500s)
-wars are necessary to maintain one's reputation
-one's own soldiers are the "sinews of war"
-the Prince's main study must be war
-"wars are made with steel, not gold"
Thomas Hobbes on Human Nature
(English Civil wars 1600s)
-we are all equal in that all can kill each other
-the "state of nature" is "the scrimmage of all against all"
-"the life of man is nasty, poor, solitary, brutish, and short"
-only a "common power" formed by a contract can prevent this constant strife
Max Weber (early 1900s) on Legitimacy of the State:
-patriarchal: ruled by family/dynasty
-charismatic: ruled by an individual embodying spirit of the people
-legal-rational: ruled by laws applicable to all