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    like mammograms and checkups. Then there’s the 80/20 rule insures will be required to spend at least 80% of the money they get from premiums on actual healthcare. Small businesses can be can visit the Small Business Health Options Program or SHOP to compare and purchase affordable health plans. I believe that this healthcare acts has a lot of advantages and

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    Bossuet And Thomas Hobbes

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    people and territories at the time. Thomas Hobbes‚ author of Leviathan‚ believes that men naturally want war with everyone who is not themselves. He believes that the only way to have peace in a world with such men is to have a single ruling entity. Hobbes’ states that men need to‚ “confer all their strength and power upon one man‚ or upon one Assembly of men‚ that may reduce all their

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    Thomas Aquinas holds that man is created as an autonomous being capable of developing standards from the circumstances and characteristics of the times in which man lives. In other words‚ the moral world is not fully formed by God; the man has basic moral principles that captures participation in the rational order of creation and freely build his daily live. On the other hand‚ Hobbes believes that the existence of society‚ political power‚ laws‚ and institutions is artificial; the truly natural

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    Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher who was lived from 1588-1679. He attended Oxford University where he studied classics. His occupation was a tutor‚ but he also traveled around Europe to meet with scientists and to study different forms of government. He became interested in why people allowed themselves to be ruled‚ and what would be the best form of government for England. Thomas Hobbes was the first great figure in modern moral philosophy. Hobbes had a pessimistic view of people; he

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    Enlightenment and The Great Awakening are two movements in colonial history that had a greater impact on the lives of the new world people. The Enlightenment period took place in the 18th century and it shaped the mind of colonists‚ and The Great Awakening took place in mid 18th century and can be describe as progress of colonist’s hearts. Enlightenment is a period during the eighteenth century; it was an intellectual movement that was influenced by the European enlightenment. The Enlightenment

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    John Locke’s influence in modern philosophy has been profound and‚ with his application of experimental analysis to ethics‚ politics‚ and religion‚ he remains one of the most important and controversial philosophers of all time. His ideas and writings lived way beyond his time‚ and have proven to be the reason the colonies broke away from their mother country and learned to expect certain rights from their government. In The Second Treatise of Government‚ Locke defines political power as the inalienable

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    The Influence of John Locke John Locke was someone more than just an ordinary man. He was the son of a country attorney and born on August 29‚ 1632. He grew up during the civil war and later entered the Church of Christ‚ Oxford‚ where he remained as a student and teacher for many years. (Rivitch 23) With a wide variety of political and religious views‚ he expressed most of his personnel views on education and social and political philosophies. Once he noted the five

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    John Locke

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    Christie Rykowski November 30‚ 2014 Christianity and Cultures Plato’s Crito VS. John Locke Although John Locke and Socrates existed over a thousand years apart in time‚ they had very similar views on how societies are formed‚ societies duties to its’ people‚ and the role which religion should play in society. The key difference in their views are shown in the duty one owes to society. In this essay I will take you through the perspectives of both philosophers so we can understand how after so many

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    Many Political Philosophies were presented in many different aspects through philosophers and social thinkers. Three philosophers in which had very strong influences on countries throughout the world were Thomas HobbesJohn Locke‚ and Karl Marx. These three people all had strong opinions in the concept of government rule and the effects towards the people. Thomas Hobbes had very strong beliefs in how monarchy was the best form of government. He talks about how this is the only way peace can be sustained

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    Thomas Hobbes' Remedy for

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    Thomas Hobbes begins Leviathan with Book 1: Of Man‚ in which he builds‚ layer by layer‚ a foundation for his eventual argument that the "natural condition" of man‚ or one without sovereign control‚ is one of continuous war‚ violence‚ death‚ and fear. Hobbes’s depiction of this state is the most famous passage in Leviathan: [D]uring the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe‚ they are in a condition which is called Warre; and such a warre‚ as is of every man‚ against every

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