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Comparing Theories of Thomas Hobbes and Polybius

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...

The Politics and Metaphysics of Thomas Hobbes

same time that other men pursue the same desires (Hobbes 185). The development of enemies comes from this course of natural compe...

Thomas Hobbes and the Influence of Francis Bacon

In seven pages this paper examines how Thomas Hobbes' writings were influenced by Francis Bacon....

Nature and Man in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan

upon human sense organs. The sights, smells, touches, and sounds of pleasurable things gives rise to appetite. Appetite gives rise...

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

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...

Thomas Hobbes and Plato on Government and Politics

In ten pages the political theory and government structural views of Thomas Hobbes and Plato are compared and contrasted as they a...

Laws, Morality, Plato, Aquinas, and Hobbes

In seven pages the views of Plato, Thomas Aquinas, and Thomas Hobbes are compared and contrasted in a consideration of whether or ...

The Philosophies of Thomas Hobbes

The writer of this 5 page paper discusses the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes with regard to politics and society. A brief biography...

The Best Government is Not Always a Democracy

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

Analysis of Relativism vs. Absolutism

In ten pages this research paper discusses the philosophical arguments of Jean Paul Sartre, William James, Michel de Montaigne, Th...

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...

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...

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...

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' 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...

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...

New World According to John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

a result, then, human action falls under the same "mechanized" process; specific desires occur in the human body and reveal themse...

Necessity of Government

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

Comparative Analysis of John Locke's and Thomas Hobbes' Theories

the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also...

Writers of English Prose

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

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...

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...

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 ...

Government Authority

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

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...

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...

Government Views of Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli Compared

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

Comparing the Philosophies of Plato, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean Paul Sartre

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