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Machivellian Foundations Built Upon by Montesquieu, Locke, and Hobbes

a prince ... cannot observe all of those virtues for which men are reputed good, because it is often necessary to act against merc...

Locke and Leibniz Refuted by Immanuel Kant

This paper examines how in Amphiboly of the Concepts of Reflection, Immanuel Kant refutes Locke and Leibniz's theories in 5 pages....

The King as Seen by Aristotle and Aquinas

The duties of a king to his subjects and their duties to him were viewed somewhat differently by St. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle....

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

In five pages this paper considers the portrayal of utopia in each work in terms of freedom and the individual....

Narrative of William Wells Brown

gory detail, down to the whippings, punishments and general mind control games that overseers regularly played with their slaves. ...

Economic and Political Freedom and Modern Democracy

This paper provides an in-depth examination of the correlation between economic and political freedom and the modern democratic ch...

The Best Government is Not Always a Democracy

nature of man and provide a justification for the creation of government. For Hobbes, "human law and order made sense out of the s...

Reflections on the First Amendment

burned an American flag, so although he did not literally speak, his act is still a form of protest. The facts are these: during t...

Contributing to the World Through Creative Independence

than to go the same direction as everyone else. As such, the student may want to add, it is one of my greatest and...

Order and Man in Hobbes, a Critique

and man, is not so considerable, as that one man can thereupon claim to himselfe any benefit, to which another may not pretend, as...

Thomas Hobbes and Plato II

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophical views of Hobbes and Plato regarding the state and democracy as re...

Man's Nature According to Thomas Hobbes

In four pages this paper examines how Hobbes viewed man's nature in a contrast with St. Augustine's philosophy. Three sources are...

1st Amendment, Flag Burning, and Hate Speech

In six pages this essay considers hate speech, the burning of the American flag, and the First Amendment as these issues are portr...

Thomas Hobbes' and Jean Paul Sartre's Theories

In about nine pages short essays consider the contradictions that appear in the theories of Sartre and Hobbes. There is no biblio...

Comparing the Philosophies of Plato, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean Paul Sartre

In seven pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of these theorists' philosophies and how each of them would critique the...

War According to Thomas Hobbes' Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts

In five pages this text by Hobbes is applied to the thesis that war is inevitable. There are no other sources listed....

St. John's Wort, Pro and Con

The writer examines the opinions of St. John's Wort, a herb commonly used to treat depression, from the point of view of tradition...

Economy, Market, and State According to Karl Marx and Thomas Hobbes

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares Marxist and Hobbesian theories regarding a market economy, the State, and society...

Economic and Political Freedom Views

In seven pages this paper examines political and economic freedom in a consideration of the perspectives of Benjamin Franklin, Ale...

Right and Wrong According to Philosophers W. David Ross and Thomas Hobbes

In five pages this essay considers right and wrong from Hobbes' 17th century perspectives and Ross's 20th century vantage point. ...

Thomas Hobbes And Sigmund Freud: Man Is Born Into Specific Behaviors

Hobbes clearly addresses the notion of individualism and Social Contract Theory as they relate to the moral factor behind justice....

A Review of The Structure of Christian Existence

This five page essay reviews the book by John B. Cobb, Jr. Two different views of Cobb are pursued. These views are formed around...

Freedom of Religion, A First Amendment Right

travel to Massachusetts for the sole purpose of disrupting Puritan church services and heckling their ministered (Woods 2). This a...

Evaluating Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

disorder," which does suggest that a social goal is that everyone should get along. But Hobbes knew early on that people do not ge...

St. John The Baptist

in their fathers footsteps. Like Jesus, John began preaching at the age of 30 (Catholic Online, 2007). His location was the banks...

Justice in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's The Republic

he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...

Power in Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and The Republic by Plato

body defines justice that makes it so. Therefore, as Plato points out, rulers must be able to distinguish between justice or inju...

Religiosity and the Colonization of the Americas

that their greater goal on this earth was to remain dedicated to God in everything they did. Winthrop instructs his listeners to ...

Martin Luther King and Thomas Jefferson on Freedom

the slaves. Slavery was legal, but it was not right and it was not conducive to freedom. For King, freedom was about equality and ...

Bush vs. Kerry, Ideals Compared

as well as create government programs (i.e., national park maintenance) while forcing employers to offer health care benefits to e...