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A Sovereign Philosophical View

In twenty pages the relationship that exists between natural law ans sovereignty is examined through such philosophical perspectiv...

Comparison of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

In twelve pages this paper examines man's nature in a contrast and comparison of Second Treatise of Civil Government by John Locke...

John Locke and Thomas Hobbes' Definitions of Liberalism

it becomes abundantly clear that "liberalism" of their day and their perception was significantly different from the ways in which...

Liberal Democratic and Radical Political Schools of Thought Compared

of his better known works "The Social Contract", he discusses issues involved in radical or republican thought regarding the human...

Necessity of Government

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

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...

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...

Liberalism Compared with the Theories of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx

body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others, that are...

John Rawls and Thomas Hobbes on Various Philosophical Issues

In ten pages this paper discusses the fool's argument, the personal contract, the prisoner's dilemma, and the assurance game as pe...

Private Property and Philosophy

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

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...

The Nature of Man in Society and in Government

himself how to act in every given circumstance; in addition, each person would be "judge, jury and executioner" of any disputes th...

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 ...

Property Ownership Rights According to Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke

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...

Concept of Divisibility According to Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

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

Government and Morality Theories of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

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...

Karl Marx, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes

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

Analyzing the Theories of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

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

'State of Nature' According to John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

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

Writers of English Prose

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

Political Power and How It Originated

a social contract. In other words, how is it that man is born free but must obey the law? Locke was by no means a theorist who tho...

Man's Interests, Politics, and the Perspectives of Niccolo Machiavelli and John Locke

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and the Social Contract of John Locke in a cons...

Thomas Hobbes on War's Inevitability

This topic is discussed within the context of the book Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts by Thomas Hobbes in...

Inevitability of War

In fourteen pages Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts by Thomas Hobbes is referenced in this overview of war's...

Locke’s State of Nature v the Social Contract

Modern society rests on a balance between personal freedom and government restriction. That balance is something that has...

Analogy, Plato, and Rousseau

a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...

Property in Second Treatise on Government by John Locke

In five pages this paper discusses the social implications of property in John Locke's argument presented in his Second Treatise o...

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...

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...