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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" |
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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 |
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Max Weber (early 1900s) on Legitimacy of the State:
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-patriarchal: ruled by family/dynasty
-charismatic: ruled by an individual embodying spirit of the people -legal-rational: ruled by laws applicable to all |