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freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

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...

In eight pages this paper discusses the views of Burke and Hobbes on government, man, and human nature with a comparison of their ...

derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these philosophers' theories on government and morality. Six sources are cited in...

fond of reminding us that the state of nature is an analytic, metaphorical, and rhetorical device - stressing individualist, const...

is clearly stated. Locke see that all land was commonly owned and the property of all of mankind, and as such there is a natural s...

Thomas Hobbes Leviathan, and John Locke in his Second Treatise on Government (Hobbes and See Also Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 1651, 2...

with "the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government." While his major focus is the framework of justifiable and workable...

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

injustice...have no place" (2001). Hobbes argued that during this period in human development it was common experience that each m...

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

a fair and equitable return for the business owner and his or her investors. Clearly, the world has become far more complicated a...

would affect others (Kahl, 2002). So then, it only makes sense given this framework that people in general tend to pursue that wh...

say that while the theorists do each embrace the same explanation as to why political authority must exist, they do not agree on w...

of society. However, Hobbes is also making the assumption that human beings will able to ascertain what is the correct way of doin...

towards a decrease; while the price of provisions would at the same time tend to rise" (Malthus PG). People of that time disagree...

In ten pages various philosophical methods are applied to the Monica Lewinsky scandal in terms of what might offer the best instru...

In six pages this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various philosophical theories with the utilitarianism of John S...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Hobbes' Leviathan and More's Utopia in terms of how the state and religion are dep...

traditional theory of the social contract" (Rawls 514). According to Rawls, there should be a "veil of ignorance" in regards to ...

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

In a paper consisting of eight pages ethical policy concerns are applied to AIDS and the workplace with liberal philosophical view...

the ability to learn nursings technical complexities and already have full command of ethical values to the point that the can act...

who consistently place the needs of others above their own. The individuals who do this seemingly so naturally often can be diffi...

et al, 1996, p. 1251). Robert Burns Robert Burns was the eldest of seven children, the son of a hard-working farmer (Anonymous, ...

the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

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

In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...