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    Would life in the State of Nature be intolerable as Hobbes and Locke believe? The state of nature is described as a primitive state untouched by civilization; it is the condition before the rule of law and is therefore a synonym of Anarchy. Anarchy means without government‚ anarchist thought is the conviction that existing forms of government are productive of wars‚ internal violence‚ repression and misery. Hobbes political philosophy considers what the life of man would be like without the

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    with this scientist and the church continue to have arguments such as how the earth was created. The discussion continued for group A with the thoughts of the discussions of the different philosophers. While several people discussed how Thomas Hobbes or John Locke were the most influential philosophers I thought it was very

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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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    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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    mechanism for the social contract and the laws that constitute it. Thus‚ the authority or the government or the sovereign or the state came into being because of the two agreements. Analysis of the theory of Social Contract by Thomas Hobbes  Thomas Hobbes theory of Social Contract appeared for the first time in Leviathan published in the year 1651 during the Civil War in Britain. Thomas Hobbesǯ legal theory is based on DzSocial contractdz. According to him‚ prior to Social Contract‚ man lived

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    Compare and Contrast the Philosophies of John Locke‚ Thomas Hobbes‚ and Karl Marx In the idea of human nature; origin of state‚ the nature of government‚ the rights of regulation can be drawn as the reflection of insightful philosophies of John Locke‚ Thomas Hobbes and Karl Marx. By understanding this within the context of human nature‚ we can see their ideas play to how they perceive a modern philosophy. Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto illustrates the desire to build "a society without economic

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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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    Hobbes Human nature since the beginning of time has been to fight for control over things someone found useful . To “control” something that would make yourself powerful or even god-like. Most have tried by force ‚ fear and even love to control various things from land and weapons and even smaller things like rice and water . It has taken figures with strong mentalitys to pause the everyday fight for key essentials to focus and sometimes even dedicate their life to the humans and

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    experience whatever is the mind got there through the senses. Locke was an empiricist who held that the mind was tabula rasa or a blank slate at birth to be written upon by sensory experience. Empiricism is opposed to rationalism or the view that mental ideas and knowledge exist in the mind prior to experience that there are abstract or innate ideas. George Berkeley argued against rationalism and materialism. He also criticized Locke on many points. He said most philosophers make an assumption that

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    Perhaps the most famous objection to view that all ideas derive from sense experience is that this is impossible. Both Locke and Hume appear to assume that sense experience gives us discrete ideas directly. As first examples of simple ideas‚ Locke lists ‘Yellow‚ White‚ Heat‚ Cold‚ Soft‚ Hard‚ Bitter‚ Sweet’ (Essay II.I.3). He supposes that what makes all experiences of yellow experiences of yellow is objective patterns of similarity between the experiences – yellow things all look ‘the same’. For

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