phil-wk-9-state-of-nature

MINIMUM OF 100 WORDS PLS

This week’s Questions of the Week can be found in the notes I’ve provided, where I give you the option of discussing practice questions 8, 9, or 10: 

FILLER TEXTDiscuss your answer and reasoning behind your answer for practice questions 8, 9, or 10 (choose only 1).

8. Just like in the Prisoner Dilemma, there are situations in which rational self-interested people all do worse by independently pursuing self interest.

a. True b. False

9. Just like in the Prisoner Dilemma, there are situations in which we can each promote our own best interest by making a contract.FILLER TEXTa. True b. False

10. According to Hobbes, in the state of nature, we would have no reason to work hard, to build things, to learn things, to achieve things because we have no security for anything we possess. Even our lives are in constant danger.

a. True b. False

Or,

What is interesting to you about the difference between Hobbes and Locke on the State of Nature?