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Montesquieu, Hobbes, and Spinoza on Political Theory

to whether or not people need law, or whether or not they can regulate society themselves. The idea of anarchy is supported by som...

Modern Leadership and Classic Political Theory

as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...

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...

Necessity of Government

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

Moral Responsibility, Determinism, and Free Will

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

Human Nature as Viewed by Thomas Hobbes

linger about fairness and equality, that one has to assume that to some extent, mans nature is related to this concept. First, Ho...

Good and Evil Morality Concepts

to allow him to survive. Pojman draws a distinction between ethics (or morality), on the one hand, and etiquette, law, and religio...

Thomas Hobbes - Was he a Liberal?

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

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...

Philosophers Compared and Contrasted

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...

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...

Morality and the Sensibility of Thomas Hobbes

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

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...

Moral Reasoning Case Study Evaluation

fact, it seems that both are taking the noble road and one wonders why anyone would succumb to the pressure of signing a paper tha...

Enlightenment Philosophy and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

existence. Thus, he sees himself as something more than a victim. He simply has a less desirable fate than some of his peers. Yet,...

A Business Dilemma and the Ethics of Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Hobbes

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

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...

'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...

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...

Sovereignty of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke's Concept of the Majority

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

Government Authority

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

The Effects of Society on Human Behavior

This paper addresses various literary works relating to human behavior and society. The author discusses George Orwell's work Sho...

Theories Regarding Power and Knowledge

In nine pages this paper examines several theoretical perspectives regarding power and knowledge including 'Discipline and Punish'...

Social Order and Humanity

speech offers a concise picture of the Athenian perspective on government, the social order and the citizens role in that order. H...

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...

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...

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...

Freedom and Nature of Man According to Thomas Hobbes

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

Property from a Philosophical Perspective

but philosophers also argue that private property rights are necessary (even when they seem unfair) "for the ethical development o...

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...