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John Locke and Natural Law

rights of another individual. In this way, then, even if one chooses badly, they have not been damaged to the point that they have...

Government Authority

the government have the right to act? By what measure can one say that an existing government is a rightful one? Hobbess...

Immanuel Kant and John Locke on the Concept of Government

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of Immanuel Kant and John Locke on the concept of government as represen...

John Locke Sources Plus an Annotated Bibliography

and not just as a theorist. Krueckeberg, Donald A. "The difficult character of property to whom do things belong?". Journal of t...

Marijuana Legality and the Views of John Locke and Plato

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the government is justified in legally regulating marijuana use according to th...

Works of Dewey, Mill, Nozick, Rawls, Locke and Burke and the Influences of Education, Society, and Politics

(1757) were published when he was only in his mid to late twenties. In the same time period, he married an Irish Catholic woman na...

Political Theories' Synopsis

the time, which was that an absolute monarchy was not an adequate form of governance because it contained no means by which indivi...

Locke And Rousseau: Differences And Similarities Of Origin And Political Significance Of Private Property

He questioned the assumption that the will of the majority is always the correct one, and he argued that the goal of government sh...

John Locke and Liberalism

Within a short time however, Locke was relieved of his public duties, and left England due to the ill effects of the climate on hi...

John Locke on Working and the Working Condition of Ned Williams in Stud Terkel's Working

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

History of Europe

due to lack of support from the homeland and the natives, whom the Vikings did battle with. Centuries later the English decided to...

Existence of Natural Rights

In five pages the existence of natural rights is considered within the context of John Locke's concepts and as they are manifested...

Age of Reason and Empiricism's Limits in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke

will experience touch, smell, taste and so forth, the latter of which is difficult to relay. In other words, how can one provide a...

The Declaration of Independence and the Second Treatise of Government

to the Declaration of Independence. That Locke influenced the ideas of the men who created the declaration is obvious. Lockes (16...

Comparative Analysis of Plato's, Hobbes' and Locke's Theories

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

John Locke and Knowledge of the External Universe

In five pages this paper discusses the primary and secondary qualities illustrated through John Locke's example of the almond in a...

Social Contract and John Locke

to take away the fundamental rights of freedom and liberty, that the government should be overthrown. When we look at the i...

John Locke and Capital Punishment

be little doubt that the crime rate is higher now, simply by virtue of the fact that the population is larger. Locke would probabl...

Ideas Concept of John Locke

being things such as substances that are found in the material world (Honderich, 1995). Modes and relations are two other complex ...

Evaluating the Paradox of John Locke

that people do have a duty to God, which is coupled with a duty to obey their ruler (Honderich, 1995). At the same time, Locke say...

Issue of Human Rights

a starting point. This was then built on by philosophers such as Kat, and the culture has changed so that these are perceived as a...

John Locke and the Right to Revolt Against Government Authority

"Natural rights are those rights such as life (from conception), liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Hence, laws and statutes w...

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...

Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson

In three pages this paper examines how Jefferson borrowed from Enlightenment theories and John Locke's political philosophy in wri...

Bertrand Russell on the Arguments of John Locke and Rene Descartes

In six pages this report assess which philosophical argument Bertrand Russell would support in an examination of Russell's Problem...

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...

Awareness in Infants

views are original sin, tabula rasa, and innate goodness" (Anonymous The history of child psychology , 2002; historyofchi_ribu.htm...

Primary and Secondary Qualities According to Berkeley and Locke

the ways that we experience these objects. A table is solid; stars in the night sky are innumerable. Secondary qualities o...

'The Negro' Views of Stephen Thompson and Alain Locke

In a paper consisting of five pages the Old Negro is compared to Alain Locke's examination of the New Negro along with Stephen Tho...

Christianity and Religion According to On Liberty and A Letter Concerning Toleration

of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...