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    2. Hobbes claims that without a government to enforce law and order‚ we would find ourselves in a “war...of every man against every man.” What reasons does he give for believing this? Do you think he is right? Hobbes argues that when there is no government or civil authority in place‚ humans are living in a state of nature. This state is what Hobbes calls a war‚ “of every man against every other man” (Leviathan pg.106). Since there is no order in place‚ everybody can then claim anything they want

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    Trevor Gillette 6/16/2011 Paper #1: Machiavelli and Hobbes These two famous philosophers‚ Machiavelli and Hobbes‚ lived a century apart from one another‚ but both still had to live during difficult times. Machiavelli the writer of The Prince was from Italy‚ where as Hobbes who wrote the Leviathan came from England. Because both lived in hard times you can see why they would have similar political views‚ however due to the fact that they were a century apart and came from different cultures

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    contract and state of nature are two concepts that show how the government was created and how they make their rules in order for their people to be safe while still having freedom to do as they desire. A world that has not been introduced to civilization is a world that is in a wild primitive state. This world is a state of equality‚ where all powers of a human being is the same and no one has more than another. Although people get to live entirely free‚ this freedom is not a state of complete

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    Hobbes Leviathan Chapter 13-18 Chapter 13 Of the Natural Condition of Mankind‚ as concerning their Felicity‚ and Misery Chapter 14-16 Chapter 14: Of the first and second Naturall Lawes‚ and of Contracts Chapter 15: Of other Lawes of Nature Chapter 16: Of Persons‚ Authors‚ and things Personated • A law of nature is a general rule that is discovered through reason. o Natural and inherently known by all because it can be deduced by innate mental faculties (reason‚ philosophy). • Horrors

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    Exam #1 1. Locks justification of private property can be summed by stating‚ the earth and all it possess is property to be used by people in common for their own benefit and existence. In Locke’s view‚ every individual must have private property rights In order to possess the property in common. To Locke‚ property also justifies and gives authority in terms of wages‚ land‚ and labor. Also in order to be justified‚ and individual must not possess more property then can be used for his benefit. This

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    Thomas hobbes theory of human nature is proven by the hunger games ‚ because of killing and the people’s bad behavior. The annual hunger games are based off of bad human nature. In the book ‚ the book quotes “ Taking the kids from our districts‚ forcing them to kill one another while we watch”.( 1.76) By stating this quote‚ this quote proves that human nature is bad ‚ because killing for no legal reason and forcing a child to harm or kill another child is cruel. The competition of the hunger games

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    living in that society. Rousseau believed that in order for a society to be justified it must ’best affirm the individual freedom of all citizens’. In Rousseau’s theory of a state of nature‚ he claims that human beings were once able to live ’uncorrupted by society’ and could essentially do as they wished. Within all states of nature‚ when conflicts being to arise each society needs some form of structured government to offer protection and security. For this theory to be successful‚ each individual must

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    has a political conception of justice that comes from “fundamental intuitive ideas regarded as latent in the public political culture.” This political conception of justice should have the hope of “gaining the support of an overlapping consensus‚” which is “a consensus in which it is affirmed by the opposing religious‚ philosophical‚ and moral doctrines likely to thrive over generations in a more or less just constitutional democracy.” The overlapping consensus on the conception of justice is “moral

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    Compare Hobbes’ and Rousseau’s assumptions about human nature. In each case what follows from these assumptions? Who do you agree with‚ and why? Throughout history‚ many philosophers have discussed the term ‘state of nature’ which is used to describe the natural condition of mankind either in the absence of a common authority or the lack of laws. In the book The Leviathan‚ Thomas Hobbes one of most important political philosopher‚ examines the state of nature in detail

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    Amatrudo-3866-Ch-01:Amatrudo-3866-Ch-01 3/5/2009 4:54 PM Page 1 1 THE NATURE OF THE STATE Political power is‚ of course‚ always coercive power backed by the state’s machinery for enforcing its laws. But in a constitutional regime political power is also power of equal citizens as a collective body: it is regularly imposed on citizens as individuals‚ some of whom may not accept the reasons widely believed to justify the general structure of political authority (the constitution);

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