Essays 61 - 90
but philosophers also argue that private property rights are necessary (even when they seem unfair) "for the ethical development o...
say that while the theorists do each embrace the same explanation as to why political authority must exist, they do not agree on w...
as this being the basis of the way than man will then behave as a result of the toughs Hobbes attention turns to human nature. C...
when it is expressed as a love of virtue, and justice when it is considered as one of many virtues. For Hobbes, self-interest "ta...
body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others, that are...
There would be less alienation, according to Marx. For Marx, Communism would be equated with freedom, despite the fact that for mo...
With the new currency, there is fear that the EU will focus on trade over security issues. In the past, Europe has had a lot of pr...
power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...
speech offers a concise picture of the Athenian perspective on government, the social order and the citizens role in that order. H...
as being possible to do. Hobbes distinguishes between a right and a law. A right, according to Hobbes, "consisteth in libe...
to whether or not people need law, or whether or not they can regulate society themselves. The idea of anarchy is supported by som...
deal of power into one ruler (or, at the very least, a collection of rulers who wont end up fighting among themselves)....
that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...
assist Bacons advancement" (Abacci Books). Yet, despite that all he had accomplished, and despite all that Essex had provided him,...
is the part of a wise man to believe them no further than right reason makes that which they say appear credible." In other words...
he is good and honest, the covenant will be kept. If not, then it is more likely than not that it will be broken. Hobbes (1651) ...
Man has a natural propensity for conflict and human beings form societies not out of their desire for complicit, but out of a fear...
Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...
that the tendency to engage in wars is a human invention, and that the inevitable result of innate human tendencies or instincts. ...
Freedom is cherished the world over. Not all that cherish freedom, however, actually have it. Unfortunately, there is often an i...
of education during Maos command proved extremely difficult to achieve, inasmuch as the entire education system crumbled and the w...
Psychiatry is a relatively new discipline yet its roots can be traced back to philosophers such...
with one another and with figures of authority in order to maximize the best interests of each individual. When left without a cen...
This essay offers evaluation of how conceptualization of the self changed over the centuries, using the works of Vergil, Hobbes an...
as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...
the adult world of constraints into an exciting world of fun in the sun, the children come up against the usual banes of social ex...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
to allow him to survive. Pojman draws a distinction between ethics (or morality), on the one hand, and etiquette, law, and religio...
linger about fairness and equality, that one has to assume that to some extent, mans nature is related to this concept. First, Ho...
one to his Will, and their Judgments to his Judgment" (Hobbes PG). Hobbes argues against the contention that through the di...