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Thomas Hobbes and Plato II

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

Self Identity Problems

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

Animal Rights

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

Questions on Aristotle and Hobbes

Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...

The Vancouver Riots of 2011 - A Hobbesian Perspective

with one another and with figures of authority in order to maximize the best interests of each individual. When left without a cen...

The Western Tradition of Psychology

Psychiatry is a relatively new discipline yet its roots can be traced back to philosophers such...

Taylor and Rawls/Premodern to Modern

a hierarchy in the cosmos."iii This hierarchy, which is typically referred to as the Great Chain of Being, was "gradually taken ov...

Afghanistan Development - Review And Recommendations

nations employ many Afghans. On April 29-30, 2007, Afghanistan held the Fourth Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) in Kabul (Afg...

Thomas Hobbes' 'Fool Argument'

he is good and honest, the covenant will be kept. If not, then it is more likely than not that it will be broken. Hobbes (1651) ...

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...

Transatlantic Relations and the Impact of the Euro

With the new currency, there is fear that the EU will focus on trade over security issues. In the past, Europe has had a lot of pr...

Man's Nature According to Thomas Hobbes and William Golding

the adult world of constraints into an exciting world of fun in the sun, the children come up against the usual banes of social ex...

Thomas R. Eddlem's Journal Article on John Hancock

With his uncles death he inherited the business and while he was only 27 years old it seems he "managed his inheritance, the large...

Absolute Sovereign Power According to Thomas Hobbes

as this being the basis of the way than man will then behave as a result of the toughs Hobbes attention turns to human nature. C...

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...

State of Nature and The Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes

In four pages this paper examines the state of nature as determined by Thomas Hobbes with an analysis of the three assumptions dev...

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...

The Idea of Security as Thomas Hobbes Would Have Seen It

This 10 page paper explores how Thomas Hobbes ideas might be applied to the problem of modern security. The bibliography lists 4 s...

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...

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...

Philosophy Topics

"Happiness is not mans greatest good. There are important realizations every man must make. The aim of man is the will to power, n...

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...

True Liberty According to Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

In five pages this paper examines how the principles outlined in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan define what should be regarded as true l...

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...

The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and the Author's Authoritarian Views

In five pages this paper discusses the authoritarian stance regarding absolute government authority advocated by Thomas Hobbes in ...

Limited or Absolute Power in the Monarchy

In five pages this paper discusses the absolute power represented by France's Louis the Fourteenth and Thomas Hobbes' limited powe...

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...

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 ...

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 ...