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    Hobbes’ Leviathan and Locke’s Second Treatise of Government comprise critical works in the lexicon of political science theory. Both works expound on the origins and purpose of civil society and government. Hobbes’ and Locke’s writings center on the definition of the "state of nature" and the best means by which a society develops a systemic format from this beginning. The authors hold opposing views as to how man fits into the state of nature and the means by which a government should be formed

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    Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are both undoubtedly two of the most well known and written about philosophers of all time. However‚ their theories and ideas on what society is‚ and what society should be should be differ drastically making them different as night and day. Thomas Hobbes had a rather dark view of society and the people in it‚ likely due to the political and civil unrest that he had experienced. This caused him to see humans as inherently hostile and that we are generally incapable

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    England was starting to seek for changes in the way their government was set up. John Locke and Samuel Rutherford were the leaders of this change‚ calling for the removal of an absolute monarch. Their works would be opposed by the ideas of Thomas Hobbes‚ during this eighteen-year civil war in England. The ideas represented in this period would heavily influence the way England’s government would be set up in the eighteenth century. In 1644 Bishop Ross‚ also known as John Maxwell‚ published Sacro-Sancta

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    known as Thomas Hobbes proposed new ideas for the time. Hobbes suggested that‚ by nature‚ all men were selfish and wicked. He detested the government‚ thus creating the social contract‚ which gave uniform to society and the government. Though Hobbes might have made a point‚ not everybody agreed. For instance‚ the philosopher‚ John Locke had a different understanding of human behavior. He saw humans as responsible beings who could grow wiser from their mistakes. Locke went against Hobbes idea of absolute

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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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    democracy have changed with the help of many philosophers. Hobbes‚ Locke‚ Montesquieu and Rousseau were four of the most important founders of the ideals of democracy. Through the Enlightenment Period‚ these thinkers began creating new ideas that would forever change the way governments are run through time. Our own American government reflects the ideas in some way or another of each of the philosophers we studied. Through new ideas‚ Hobbes‚ Locke‚ Rousseau and Montesquieu all changed the way government

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    AP European History May 14‚ 2011 St. Thomas Aquinas: The Summa Theologica St. Thomas Aquinas’s “The Summa Theologica” is a document meant to summarize the difference between divine laws and human laws. This document explains whether these two types of laws are just or unjust. Aquinas demonstrates how laws are the reason for the common good which is made by those who care for their community‚ and how all the laws come from divine reasons which according to the document are understood by men

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    Looking to the science of the day‚ Hobbes determined that there was no soul and attempted to describe human nature as pure mechanics. Human nature was therefore driven by the need to satisfy the physical demands of the body and based on basic passions in life. These are to satisfy physical appetites‚ to seek power to maintain their wealth and to be superior to others by seeking glory. Hobbes saw the state nature as “solitary‚ poor‚ nasty‚ brutish‚ and short." The state of nature is anarchy‚ with

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    from others. Your natural rights to the most basic aspects of life such as food‚ water‚ shelter‚ and the ability to live itself were much less assured. As Hobbes believed‚ all men lived in a natural state of war where “every man has the right to everything”‚ even to take the property and life of another human (Hobbes ch. XIV). For this reason‚ Hobbes thought was that only the strongest leader‚ an absolute monarch‚ could hold man back from his base instincts‚ for fear of death from that monarch’s hand

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    States. We reflect on the history of our predecessors to determine their successes and their mistakes. There are fundamental questions we must address before war is wages because during war‚ people will die‚ and resources will be allocated. St. Thomas Aquinas‚ an influential philosopher of the 13th century addressed the questions of what it means to justify war. He argued that it is permissible to use force against a foreign enemy when the criteria of the "Natural Law" are met. He states that war must

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