Political power differs in kind from paternal, marital, and slaveholding power
Evidence
Sect. 2. To this purpose, I think it may not be amiss, to set down what I take to be political power; that the power of a MAGISTRATE over a subject may be distinguished from that of a FATHER over his children, a MASTER over his servant, a HUSBAND over his wife, and a LORD over his slave. All which distinct powers happening sometimes together in the same man, if he be considered under these different relations, it may help us to distinguish these powers one from wealth, a father of a family, and a captain of a galley. — , Second Treatise of Government, 11
Categorization
- DEFINE: Distinguishes political power from household forms before Locke gives his formal definition.
- XREF: Connects to A Midwife’s Tale and the household-economy material — the household as a distinct jurisdiction from the state. — connects to: Political and paternal power are distinct in foundation and end, not the same thing. — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 84; Political power takes its shape from a distinct rationality, not from social structures — Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise…, 92; Political power arises between citizens acting together, not individually — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 135 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Political and paternal power are distinct in foundation and end, not the same thing.
#corroborates(1.00) — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 84 - Political power arises between citizens acting together, not individually
#corroborates(0.90) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 135 - Physical force mediates power’s symbolic and organic levels, differentiating political power
#expands(0.90) - Political power takes its shape from a distinct rationality, not from social structures
#corroborates(0.85) — Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism, 92 - Power is constitutive of social relations, not separable from them.
#complicates(0.80) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 446