The world we live in today stands by the thought‚ that if we did not have certain rules in our system‚ everyone would always be at war and destructions‚ catastrophes and vandalism would be constantly occurring. Thomas Hobbes was an important philosopher‚ who lived from 1588-1679‚ and proposed many important and thoughtful propositions‚ to make sure and pint out our mistakes. As we look around today‚ we see the corrupt world we live in‚ and the characteristics of people‚ that take us forward in life
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to be ruled by just one person good or bad or have a say in choosing a leader without giving up your natural rights? English philosophers Hobbes and Locke had different sets of ideas about government and people. Hobbes ideas are harsher‚ but reasonable while Locke’s ideas are moral and optimistic. As the movie‚ Lord of the flies exemplifies that even though Hobbes believed humans are born with passion and reason‚ Locke’s ideas would create a much more stable and functioning society because people have
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begin to investigate how other things and other beings fit into your own world. Basho and Hobbes are two very intellectual thinkers/writers that come from around the same time periods. However‚ despite the years between these two intellectuals they share many common themes. Basho was a Japanese writer from the 17th Century focusing on himself within nature and the surrounding environments interacting. Hobbes was a thinker/writer that existed
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government should be run‚ while some ideas would benefit the community as a whole‚ others would destroy it and cause chaos. For example‚ Thomas Hobbes‚ as expressed in Leviathan‚ believed an absolute monarchy was the best and only way to govern a country. He believed that this government was the only one that could maintain peace. In Leviathan Hobbes argues that absolute monarchy is the only right form of government and believed that any form of ordered government is preferable to civil war. He
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externally has been questioned by philosopher. However‚ two have stood apart. Two great philosophers‚ Thomas Hobbes and John Lock‚ had two very different theories that have swung back and forth through people’s minds. Complete opposites that are grouped in one major debate that has only been named only recently‚ one that has been raging as long as humanity itself‚ Hobbes vs. Locke. Human nature in Hobbes eyes is a foul‚ corrupted thing. Like a beast‚ soiled with foul breath and a mangled appearance. He said
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Leviathan. In the state of nature‚ men are not magnanimous beings. A notion similar to the first sin‚ yet different from a philosopher like Jean Jacque Rousseau. It has always been taken for granted that there are wicked and virtuous humans‚ yet for Hobbes‚ humans are innately wicked. These notions‚ however abstract and contradictory they may seem‚ are demonstrated in this short paper; Hobbes’s chapter 13 of Leviathan is abridged in this paper. First‚ the inclinations that drive men to behave in a wicked
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What is common in Locke‚ Hobbes and Rousseau is state of nature. In the state of nature all people are equal although they have different tallents they are equal‚ because having different tallents doesn’t prevent equality - and have same rights but in time they try to command each other and make domination upon them. Hobbes associate this desire with the effort to dispel the insecurity which is caused by equality between people. According to his opinion‚ if two people desire the same thing that
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Philosophers of the Enlightenment had numerous and often discordant ideas about government‚ the most notable being the contrasting social contract theories of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. Locke believed that humans‚ in the state of nature‚ were a blank slate‚ enjoying complete equality‚ freedom‚ and independence. By surrendering some of these natural rights through a social contract‚ governments were created which would act for the benefit of the people and be controlled by the people. However‚
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Hobbes would argue that the insurgents should not have rebelled‚ that they have no right that they deserve whatever punishment the Sovereign wants to give them. Hobbes would have said that if it was not for the rebels‚ the Sovereign would have been able to fight the Islamic State when they first started. After defeating this other Commonwealth‚ the Islamic State‚ the Syrian government could have worked to improve the situation for all its subjects. But now that the Commonwealth is in a State of War
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about a more democratic government very clearly. Locke believes that the government is there to protect the people’s rights and that everyone should be treated equally. Thomas Hobbes is a polar opposite of Locke. In Hobbes’ document Leviathan‚ he makes it evident that he would rather have a dictatorship or a monarchy. Hobbes views the state of
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