SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes

Essays 31 - 60

Freedom Views of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

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

Laws, Morality, Plato, Aquinas, and Hobbes

In seven pages the views of Plato, Thomas Aquinas, and Thomas Hobbes are compared and contrasted in a consideration of whether or ...

Writers of English Prose

assist Bacons advancement" (Abacci Books). Yet, despite that all he had accomplished, and despite all that Essex had provided him,...

Analysis of Relativism vs. Absolutism

In ten pages this research paper discusses the philosophical arguments of Jean Paul Sartre, William James, Michel de Montaigne, Th...

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

Thomas Paine's Political Propaganda

he inspired two nations. Kindig (2003) summarizes that Paine: "communicated the ideas of the...

The Centralist Political Philosophy of Barack Obama: "Useful Fictions"

This 4 page paper provides an overview of Barack Obama's political philosophy and its orientation in centralism. The primary thesi...

'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas

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...

Necessity of Government

country in terms of routine items such as traffic and violent crime and international relations. It would create a strong national...

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...

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...

John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and the Social Contract

In seven pages this paper examines the social contract in concept and incorporates the philosophical views of Thomas Hobbes and Jo...

Disciples of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes and Their Disagreements

Divisibility and positivism are examined in a report of two pages that discusses the disagreement points between Thomas Hobbes' an...

Human Nature According to Thomas Hobbes and Hsun Tzu

In eight pages this paper discusses man's social role within the contexts of Hsun Tzu and Thomas Hobbes. Six sources are cited in...

Limited or Absolute Power in the Monarchy

In five pages this paper discusses the absolute power represented by France's Louis the Fourteenth and Thomas Hobbes' limited powe...

Sovereignty and Issue of a Central Government of the United States in the 18th Century

In twelve pages the sovereignty issue is examined within the context of the theories of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the effec...

Enlightened Age Elements of Progress, Nature, and Reason

and comparison of the volumes of literature that were produced during this era. Three of the great philosophers of this era, Thom...

Politics and Self Interest

In eight pages this paper examines the concepts of Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke as they relate to politics a...

Thomas Hobbes and Aristotle on Human Nature

the civilization that had sprung up, flourished for centuries, and now stood on the brink of massive change in his native land of ...

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan and the Contemporary Police State

This 5 page paper argues that Thomas Hobbes' classic work Leviathan and its negative view of what he called the state of nature is...

Political Philosophy Debate on the Abuse of Authority

In this paper consisting of seven pages a better understanding of such abuses as Amadou Diallo's murder by NYPD officers is provid...

The Western Tradition of Psychology

Psychiatry is a relatively new discipline yet its roots can be traced back to philosophers such...

Society and Freedom According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx

There would be less alienation, according to Marx. For Marx, Communism would be equated with freedom, despite the fact that for mo...

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...

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...

Thomas Hobbes' 'Fool Argument'

he is good and honest, the covenant will be kept. If not, then it is more likely than not that it will be broken. Hobbes (1651) ...

New World According to John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

a result, then, human action falls under the same "mechanized" process; specific desires occur in the human body and reveal themse...

Moral Reasoning Case Study Evaluation

fact, it seems that both are taking the noble road and one wonders why anyone would succumb to the pressure of signing a paper tha...

Comparative Analysis of John Locke's and Thomas Hobbes' Theories

the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also...

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...