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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...

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 Aquinas' Work

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

Rene Descartes and Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

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...

Cantos 11 and 12 of Dante's 'Paradiso'

doubt, people during that time would have recognized. The twelve person circles are led by each St. Thomas, the Franciscan, and St...

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...

Analysis of God's Existence

In eight pages this research paper considers philosophical perspectives regarding God's existence and includes David Hume's opposi...

Philosophical Arguments Pertaining to God's Existence

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

Existence of God According to Saint Thomas Aquinas

In three pages this paper discusses how God's existence was argued by Saint Thomas Aquinas. There is no bibliography included....

Aristotelian Philosophy and Saint Thomas Aquinas

In eight pages this paper discusses how Aristotelian philosophy is refuted by St. Thomas Aquinas and also discusses the Summa Theo...

'On the Eternity of the World' by Thomas Aquinas

In a paper consisting of nine pages this work by Aquinas is evaluated in terms of its strengths and weaknesses of points. Five so...

Dreams and Whether or Not They Are Meaningful

Using the concepts of Thomas Aquinas this essay consisting of three pages discusses why dream symbolism is meaningful in terms of ...

Analysis of the Happiness Concept of Saint Thomas Aquinas

wrote, "The very fact that the human being is rational necessitates its being characterized by free decision [liberum arbitrium]" ...

Materialism is Not Preferred Over Hylemorphism

Hylemorphism's preference over materialism in philosophy is examined from the metaphysical perspectives of Thomas Aquinas and Aris...

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....

Historical Context Regarding Philosophy's Intent

In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...

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...

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...

State of Nature and The Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes

In four pages this paper examines the state of nature as determined by Thomas Hobbes with an analysis of the three assumptions dev...

Modern Conservativism Founders Edmund Burke and Thomas Hobbes

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

The Idea of Security as Thomas Hobbes Would Have Seen It

This 10 page paper explores how Thomas Hobbes ideas might be applied to the problem of modern security. The bibliography lists 4 s...

Religion and Science in Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and Paradise Lost by John Milton

In six pages this research paper examines the religious and scientific perspectives offered by John Milton's Paradise Lost and Tho...

Theology of the IRA

In ten pages this paper discusses the IRA in a consideration of oppression, the movement of the Seventies and Eighties and the the...

Ideal Marriage in Concept

In twelve pages this paper examines the ideal marriage concept as represented in the writings of Whitehead, Blaselee, Wallerstein,...

Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Early Political Thinking

This paper examines Hobbes' work, Leviathan, as well as Machiavelli's, The Prince as they relate to the beginnings of political th...

Social Contract Theory and the State

In six pages this report discusses the social contract theory in a consideration of how the state concept came into being with Joh...

'Just War' Concept

In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...

Postmodern World, Modern, and Classical Philosophy

In eight pages classical and modern philosophers are consulted regarding their thoughts on the postmodern world in order to determ...

Ideal Marriage in Concept

In twelve pages this paper examines the ideal marriage concept as represented in the writings of Whitehead, Blaselee, Wallerstein,...