Hobbes and Locke Paper: Social Contract Theory April 15‚ 2012 Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are two of the most influential political philosophers of the modern age. Their ideas on political philosophy‚ among other ideas‚ have helped shaped the Western World‚ as we know it. One of the most important theories that the two have both discussed‚ and written in detail on‚ is the idea of the social contract. Social Contract Theory is the view that moral and/or political duties depend on a contract that
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John Locke John Locke set a basis that all people are “born with natural rights of life‚ liberty‚ and property.” He states that the only reason a state is established is to protect those rights. Locke saw people as basically good and humane; completely different than Thomas Hobbes view as man being “brutish and selfish.” He believed that the only way a law should be passed is if it was “designed for no other end ultimately‚ but…” for the good of the people under it. Another idea was that taxes
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Mchiavelli‚ Thomas Hobbes‚ and John Lock challenge this assumption to a certain point‚ and familiarize their concerns about good government‚ order‚ and human nature. While many have argued that Machiavelli‚ Hobbes‚ and Locke are clearly distinguished from the ancient thinkers‚ this paper will argue that some of the ideas of Plato and Aristotle continued so for modern theorists. Primarily‚ this paper will recap the influences of Machiavelli‚ Hobbes‚ and Locke.
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govern themselves. With a “caring” and “fair” ruler they could be saved from the burden of their own judgement. In contrast‚ Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke‚ Baron De Montesquieu‚ Mary Wollstonecraft‚ and Jean-Jacques Rousseau thought that people were born pure and only were bad from the “corruption of society”‚ thus they should have a say in
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exists in the list of virtues. For property‚ Hume thinks‚ plays an essential role in making justice useful for people. OK but you quote yourself from a previous paper John Locke‚ in his work Second Treatise of Government‚ writes about his views on the conception of property. In the chapter which is titled "Of Property" Locke makes significant points about private property. He‚ first
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Thomas Hobbes and John Locke represent the beginning of political science in the seventeenth century‚their ideas on what government should or shouldn’t do would be refined by Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers thus becoming the basis of the constitutional democracy of the United States. Hobbes took a very different approach than Locke in what he thought of humans in general;the same goes for political matters. He thought people were savages when born and only under someone else’s leadership
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influencing two famous philosophical men. Thomas Hobbes‚ author of Leviathan‚ and John Locke‚ author of Second Treatise on Civil Government‚ drew on their experiences of England’s monarchical turmoil to conceive very different political theories. Both Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were prominent political philosophers in the
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Yes‚ because as Locke used the word property‚ it was used in small and wide understandings. It was within of human well-being and belongings. He argued that it was a natural right to have property and was determined from work. John Locke believed that claiming of property was made by the value of work or jobs. And property went ahead of government‚ but the governemt just can’t get rid of the area of the subjects immediately. He believed that human nature was described by reason and understanding
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Thomas Hobbes vs. John Locke Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were to philosophers with opposing opinions on human nature and the state of nature. Locke saw humanity and life with optimism and community‚ whereas Hobbes only thought of humans as being capable of living a more violent‚ self-interested lifestyle which would lead to civil unrest. However‚ both can agree that in order for either way of life to achieve success there must be a sovereign. Hobbes was a philosopher who saw humans as a purely
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John Locke of Poor Reform and Workhouses The reading for this week addresses Locke’s understanding of the relationship between the poor and the capable citizens in society. He stated explicitly in his second treatise on government‚ the importance of work and labor in order to assess a person’s worth. Locke believes that man is not meant to be idle and that the purpose of existence is to live in the image of God and work towards a life of moral bounds and labor upon the earth making it more beneficial
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