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Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...
of education during Maos command proved extremely difficult to achieve, inasmuch as the entire education system crumbled and the w...
academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...
that the tendency to engage in wars is a human invention, and that the inevitable result of innate human tendencies or instincts. ...
This essay offers evaluation of how conceptualization of the self changed over the centuries, using the works of Vergil, Hobbes an...
with one another and with figures of authority in order to maximize the best interests of each individual. When left without a cen...
In nine pages this paper examines several theoretical perspectives regarding power and knowledge including 'Discipline and Punish'...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...
to whether or not people need law, or whether or not they can regulate society themselves. The idea of anarchy is supported by som...
that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...
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...
This paper examines Hobbes' work, Leviathan, as well as Machiavelli's, The Prince as they relate to the beginnings of political th...
In six pages the theoretical perspectives of Cicero, Hobbes, and Aquinas are contrasted and compared as they relate to natural law...
In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...
and man, is not so considerable, as that one man can thereupon claim to himselfe any benefit, to which another may not pretend, as...