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

In four pages this paper examines how Hobbes viewed man's nature in a contrast with St. Augustine's philosophy. Three sources are...

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophical views of Hobbes and Plato regarding the state and democracy as re...

In six pages this paper discusses crime and punishment in a fictitious dialogue between Kant, Hobbes, and Plato. Three sources ar...

In twenty pages this report compares the views of government espoused by each of these influential pollitical philosophers. Nine ...

In five pages this text by Hobbes is applied to the thesis that war is inevitable. There are no other sources listed....

In about nine pages short essays consider the contradictions that appear in the theories of Sartre and Hobbes. There is no biblio...

In seven pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of these theorists' philosophies and how each of them would critique the...

as being possible to do. Hobbes distinguishes between a right and a law. A right, according to Hobbes, "consisteth in libe...

of life or meant literally in respect to wealth. No matter how one interprets the sentiment, it seems that life is not good accord...

disorder," which does suggest that a social goal is that everyone should get along. But Hobbes knew early on that people do not ge...

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

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

to be held in such high esteem as to the exclusion of all other government. Yet, Hobbes did not have much faith in people and tho...

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...

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

it followeth necessarily when they that have the government of religion shall come to have either the wisdom of those men, their s...

body defines justice that makes it so. Therefore, as Plato points out, rulers must be able to distinguish between justice or inju...

with "the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government." While his major focus is the framework of justifiable and workable...

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

a fair and equitable return for the business owner and his or her investors. Clearly, the world has become far more complicated a...

one to his Will, and their Judgments to his Judgment" (Hobbes PG). Hobbes argues against the contention that through the di...

he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...

Thomas Hobbes Leviathan, and John Locke in his Second Treatise on Government (Hobbes and See Also Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 1651, 2...

In six pages this research paper examines religion and the state as viewed by philosophers Mill, Rousseau, and Hobbes. Three sour...

Hobbes clearly addresses the notion of individualism and Social Contract Theory as they relate to the moral factor behind justice....

nature of man and provide a justification for the creation of government. For Hobbes, "human law and order made sense out of the s...

of England (The American Revolution, 2007). Before the American Revolution he lived in America and was there when legal acts wer...

there, but the Kingdom of the Father is spread out on the earth and men do not see it." A short parable occurs early in Thomass ...

associates in Europe" he would refer "to blacks as lazy, slow, unable to reason, lacking in imagination and even spoke against the...