Throughout history there have been many philosophers who have developed many different ideas and concepts. One important group is the classical liberal/social contract theorists who worked and developed their ideas during the 1600s. John Locke‚ Thomas Hobbes‚ Jean Jacques Rousseau‚ and Immanuel Kant were all critical contributors to the liberal ideas that have been the basis for many governmental actions since this time. These three philosophers agreed on many things‚ but also had many disagreements
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Question 1: In his book‚ Leviathan‚ Thomas Hobbes provided a very radical‚ innovative‚ and contradictory answer to what he believed to be the origin and purpose of the state. He argues that the State exists because of a social contract with its people. The passage reads‚ “hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe‚ they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.” As mentioned in this statement
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Locke and Hobbes were both social contract theorists‚ and both natural law theorists (Natural law in the sense of Saint Thomas Aquinas‚ not Natural law in the sense of Newton)‚ but there the resemblance ends. All other natural law theorists assumed that man was by nature a social animal. Hobbes assumed otherwise‚ thus his conclusions are strikingly different from those of other natural law theorists. In addition to his unconventional conclusions about natural law‚ Hobbes was fairly infamous for
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A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION WHY JOHN LOCKE IS SUCH AN AGGRESSIVE CRITIQUE OF THOMAS HOBBES’ LEVIATHAN IDEA Introduction Writing in the 1650’s‚ Thomas Hobbes sought to address the prevalent problem of war by seeking to obtain those rational principles that will aid the construction of a “civil polity that will not be subject to destruction from within. ” Hobbes employs the idea of a “social contract” to resolve that seemingly intractable problem of war and disorder. He begins by imagining how people
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is a topic discussed for centuries. Philosophers for generations asked question regarding the form of government that human beings react best in. In class we examined both Thomas Hobbes and John Locke’s theory of the State of Nature which allowed us to see their viewpoints on humankind. Hobbes believes that humans are selfishly motivated and are constantly at war with one another. However‚ Locke has a more positive outlook. He believes that humans behaved based on the Law of Nature which is given
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Writings from the works of the authors in question immediately display a distinct difference in their trains of thought. Hobbes and Locke take different paths but come to a similar conclusion‚ that of the necessity for the creation of civil government as authority over men‚ this is the basic bond that connects them. Their reasoning behind such a conclusion‚ though‚ begins with their differing and separate foundations. This discrepancy is notable in their discussions and separate ideologies of various
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John Locke vs. Thomas Hobbes The new ways of thinking developed during the scientific revolution began to extend into other areas of life beyond that of just science. Scholars and philosophers began to rethink the old ideas about religion‚ economics‚ and education. The Enlightenment started from key ideas put forth by two English political thinkers of the 1600s‚ Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Both men experienced hardships England early in that century in the English civil war but they ended up getting
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The history of the development of government has been changing and still continues to change today. However‚ today in the United States of America‚ regarding the purpose of government and the necessity of such a government‚ has been a result of different ideas and opposing sides throughout the years. Many American’s ask why do governments exist? The major reason they do is because they create rules but what rules are necessary for people. Governments purpose is to protect people from problems‚ provide
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The Three Purposes of Government The rule of law prevents the United States from breaking out into a mob rule. Order‚ equality‚ and freedom are the three factors that keep our government in order. With everyone in order it creates an equal opportunity for all‚ and with equality comes freedom because everyone would ultimately be the same. The rule of law is crucial for democracy because without it there would be chaos and many people attempting to create their own government defeating the meaning
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Chapter 1 Which of the following governments would be considered a general purpose government? A)Mineral Valley State University. B)Jackson County. C)Billings Community Library. D)Darien Consolidated School District. Feedback: General purpose governments typically provide a wide array of service functions. This would be the case for a county government‚ whereas the other choices depict special purpose governments?entities that provide either a single service or a narrow range of services
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