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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...

Innate Knowledge and the Debate Between Nativism and Empiricism

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

John Steinbeck's Works and Morality

In 6 pages this paper examines how John Steinbeck portrays morality in such works as East of Eden, In Dubious Battle, The Pearl, O...

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. ...

X Files, Personhood and a Disembodied Mind

In six pages this paper examines an X Files episode form 1998 in a consideration of whether or not personhood can be experienced b...

Marx, Engels, and Locke on Social Justice

was in opposition to the patriarchal theory that conferred divine-right grace on any sitting monarch. Locke emphasized human stre...

Politics, Private Property, and the Philosophy of John Locke

and the natural rights that inherently accompany such ownership. Within the realm of life exists inherent elements to ones existe...

Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water

Thomas King's novel Truth and Bright Water and its thematic duality are discussed in five pages....

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...

Moral Philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill

In five pages this essay compares and contrasts Immanuel Kant's 18th century moral philosophy with that of John Stuart Mill's 19th...

Political Philosophies of John Locke and Plato

In six pages this research essay considers the differences that exist in the political philosophies of John Locke and Plato. Four...

Identity in the Novel as a Philosophical Exploration

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

Education in the Enlightenment vs. Classical Greek

patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...

Man Philosophically Defined

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

Skepticism and Knowledge According to John Locke

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

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...

Private Property According to John Locke and Plato

In five pages this research essay discusses how private property is conceptualized by John Locke and Plato with the writer's own p...

Comparative Analysis of John Locke and Niccolo Machiavelli

This paper contrasts and compares the political philosophies of theorists John Locke and Niccolo Machiavelli in 5 pages. Two sour...

Substance According to John Locke

philosophy and political theory has been incalculable. Substance In the "Essay Concerning Human Understanding," Locke carefully ...

U.S. Constitution and John Locke

antiquity of places and names, or of the pomp of their outward worship; others, of the reformation of their discipline; all, of th...

A Review of Deaf Like Me

A 5 page review of the book by Thomas Spradley and James Spradley. 1 source....

Social Contributions of Philosophers

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

Locke vs. Descartes on Mind and Body

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

Literary Application of Rene Descartes' Method

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...

'Justice as Fairness' and the Theories of John Rawls

Rawls, these individuals have what he calls "two moral powers" and explains these in the following manner: (1) One such power is t...

Thomas Hobbes - Was he a Liberal?

one to his Will, and their Judgments to his Judgment" (Hobbes PG). Hobbes argues against the contention that through the di...

Ideas from The Social Contract

of sorts, between the people and the legislators. General will, then is the majority desire for a certain way of life or course o...

David Hume and John Locke on the Certainty Concept

assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...

Innate Principles Concept and John Locke

philosophy and political theory for the past 400 years has been incalculable. Locke and Innate Principles In the "Essay Concerni...

Wallerstein's Theory of World Systems

most developed are powerful and this allows them to determine the type of governance that fosters their continued power (Martin, 2...