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4 Questions on Philosophy, Hobbes and Peirce

power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...

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...

Liberals and Conservatives, Pro and Con

varies considerably from the twentieth century definition quoted above. Regulation, of course, is typically implemented by govern...

Liberalism, Democracy And Religion

economic freedom (Tinder 2000). However, this rebirth also led to a suffocating individualism that ultimately overshadowed the ve...

Nietzsche, Kant, and Locke Perspectives on Western Philosophical Causality Since Descartes

In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...

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....

Kant, Locke, and Hobbes on the Social Contract and Nature

In 6 pages this paper examines how these philosophers regarded national law and the social contracts of man in a comparison and co...

Baptism And Ablution

ritual in pagan religions for the purpose of purifying oneself (Barnes 2000). Although the term baptism is not found in the Old ...

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...

Political Dominance of the Liberalism Philosophy

a choice if deciding which way the world is swinging today, or always has. There is somewhat of a misconception that the world has...

Political Ideologies of East and West Compared

of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...

John Rawls/Sustainability of Political Systems

they are to be to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged members of society (Rawls 5-6). Rawls points out that within any...

Questions on the New Left, Liberalism, and Vietnam Answered

under both JFK and LBJ, discussed Kennedys knowledge of the coup and its aftermath in Errol Morris documentary, The Fog of War. F...

Examining the EU through the Realist and Liberalist Perspectives

can be seen in the Xerox Eureka system, this is both innovative and home grown, as well as so good that it has achieved many award...

Defining Civilization and Explaining Liberalism and Realism

The geographical aspect has been argued as one that is essential, as all civilizations may be located in a map (Braudel and Mayne,...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Comparing Theories of Thomas Hobbes and Polybius

to be held in such high esteem as to the exclusion of all other government. Yet, Hobbes did not have much faith in people and tho...

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...

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...

Liberalism's Political and Economic Consequences

In five pages this paper discusses liberalism to the extreme and the political and economic problems that can result. Five source...

U.S. and Liberalism's Emergence

In twelve pages this report discusses how liberalism emerged in the United States with a consideration of cultural and social dime...

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. ...

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...

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...

Morality and the Sensibility of Thomas Hobbes

it followeth necessarily when they that have the government of religion shall come to have either the wisdom of those men, their s...