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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...

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...

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...

Divisibility, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes

In five pages this paper discusses divisibility in a comparative analysis of the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Fo...

Thesis of Divisibility

In five pages political and scientific philosophies are both considered in an examination of divinity with the perspectives of Tho...

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...

Thomas Hobbes' and John Locke's Views and the 'Opposing Appetites' of Niccolo Machiavelli

In five pages this report contrasts Machiavelli's social opposition theory with the perspectives of political theorists Thomas Hob...

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...

Philosophy and Presidential Candidates

In five pages this paper discusses how presidential candidates can each be connected in some way with the philosophies of Jean Jac...

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 ...

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...

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...

Community and the Possession of Private Arms

In ten pages this paper considers the right to bear arms in America in a discussion of community with a comparison of the philosop...

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...

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...

Hobbes and Machiavelli on Human Nature

In ten pages this essay considers human nature from the perspectives of Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli. Two sources are ci...

Thomas Hobbes and Sigmund Freud on Gun Control

In five pages this paper examines what Sigmund Freud and Thomas Hobbes would have to say about gun control in light of the tragic ...

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...

Philosophical Empiricism and Rationalism

In two pages this report examines the Empiricism characterized by the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the rationa...

Philosophers on Dualism

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

Government Authority

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

Benjamin Franklin on the Relationship Between Society and Self

In eleven pages this paper considers Benjamin Franklin's perspectives on society and self in comparison with the views of Thomas H...

Social Contract Theory and John Locke

In five pages this paper examines the views of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes in a comparison of their social contract th...

Community, Rousseau, and Hobbes

In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and Jean Jacques Rousseau in a consideration of community and ...

A Sovereign Philosophical View

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

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...

Society and the Individual from a Philosophical Perspective

In four pages this report considers Plato and Thomas Hobbes in a philosophical discussion of the connection between society and th...

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...

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...