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Thomas Hobbes on War's Inevitability

This topic is discussed within the context of the book Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts by Thomas Hobbes in...

American Health Care Industry as Viewed by Thomas Hobbes and Plato

In ten pages this paper examines how Hobbes and Plato would view the problems currently faced by the U.S. health care industry. F...

Sovereignty and Issue of a Central Government of the United States in the 18th Century

In twelve pages the sovereignty issue is examined within the context of the theories of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the effec...

Political Philosophy Debate on the Abuse of Authority

In this paper consisting of seven pages a better understanding of such abuses as Amadou Diallo's murder by NYPD officers is provid...

Social Order and Humanity

speech offers a concise picture of the Athenian perspective on government, the social order and the citizens role in that order. H...

Absolute Sovereign Power According to Thomas Hobbes

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...

Property from a Philosophical Perspective

but philosophers also argue that private property rights are necessary (even when they seem unfair) "for the ethical development o...

Liberalism Compared with the Theories of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx

body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others, that are...

Freedom and Nature of Man According to Thomas Hobbes

of life or meant literally in respect to wealth. No matter how one interprets the sentiment, it seems that life is not good accord...

Montesquieu, Hobbes, and Spinoza on Political Theory

to whether or not people need law, or whether or not they can regulate society themselves. The idea of anarchy is supported by som...

Justice as it Respects Hobbes and Plato

that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...

Writers of English Prose

assist Bacons advancement" (Abacci Books). Yet, despite that all he had accomplished, and despite all that Essex had provided him,...

Modern Leadership and Classic Political Theory

as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...

Man's Nature According to Thomas Hobbes and William Golding

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...

Human Nature as Viewed by Thomas Hobbes

linger about fairness and equality, that one has to assume that to some extent, mans nature is related to this concept. First, Ho...

Good and Evil Morality Concepts

to allow him to survive. Pojman draws a distinction between ethics (or morality), on the one hand, and etiquette, law, and religio...

Society and Freedom According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx

There would be less alienation, according to Marx. For Marx, Communism would be equated with freedom, despite the fact that for mo...

Anthony Down and Thomas Hobbes on Political Ideology

as being possible to do. Hobbes distinguishes between a right and a law. A right, according to Hobbes, "consisteth in libe...

Concepts of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

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...

Thomas Hobbes' 'Fool Argument'

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) ...

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and the Fool's Role

Man has a natural propensity for conflict and human beings form societies not out of their desire for complicit, but out of a fear...

Philosophers on Dualism

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

Theories Regarding Power and Knowledge

In nine pages this paper examines several theoretical perspectives regarding power and knowledge including 'Discipline and Punish'...

The Effects of Society on Human Behavior

This paper addresses various literary works relating to human behavior and society. The author discusses George Orwell's work Sho...

Government Authority

the government have the right to act? By what measure can one say that an existing government is a rightful one? Hobbess...

Hobbes and Machiavelli on Human Nature

In ten pages this essay considers human nature from the perspectives of Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli. Two sources are ci...

Private Property and Philosophy

In seven pages this paper discusses private property in a discussion of social contract theory, the views of Rousseau, Hobbes, and...

John Stuart Mill, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Hobbes

In six pages this research paper examines religion and the state as viewed by philosophers Mill, Rousseau, and Hobbes. Three sour...

Benjamin Franklin on the Relationship Between Society and Self

In eleven pages this paper considers Benjamin Franklin's perspectives on society and self in comparison with the views of Thomas H...

Social Contract Theory and John Locke

In five pages this paper examines the views of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes in a comparison of their social contract th...