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    relation is always conflictual. Another theory which is completely the opposite is Liberalism. The Classical Liberalism theory is a political ideology which was founded on ideas of freedom and equality. That ideology was introduced to the world by John Locke in the Seventeenth Century (Jackson‚2010). The Classical Liberalism belief in progress and has a conviction that international relation can be cooperative. In that essay will be compared and contrast main arguments of two theory’s which is Classical

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    conditions of human life itself. Many of the thinkers of the European Enlightenment moved away from medieval thinking toward more modern thoughts regarding government and the role of women in society. Document 1 Second Treatise on Government - John Locke . Political power is that power‚ which every man having in the state of nature‚ has given up into the hands of the society‚ and therein to the governors‚ whom the society hath set over itself‚ with this express or tacit trust‚ that it shall be

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    cross-cultural contact" that "triggered anxieties" for Europeans about the nature of being civilized (Outram‚ 2004). To the 17th century English philosopher John Locke‚ an early archetype of an enlightened thinker‚ the discovery of the New World of America "enlarged the sphere of contemplation" about "civilized man" and his "savage ancestors" (Locke‚ 1690). There was more to discover. The scientific journeys of exploration around the Pacific in the 18th century by James Cook‚ another archetypal figure

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    In contrast to nature‚ the nurture aspect was originated from John Locke‚ who believed we are born with a tabula rasa (blank slate)‚ and our experiences are written upon it. John Watson a behaviourist believed that we are shaped from our experiences‚ and from this he claimed that he could take a child from any background and shape them into whatever he wanted purely from social experience (Passer & Smith 2008. p 9.). These ideas appear to be too simplistic as there is more to humans than our environment

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    Hobbes‚ John Locke‚ and Jean Jacques-Rousseau are believed to be the foremost political philosophers of Western Civilization. Like Hobbes and Locke‚ Rousseau believed in the social contract theory. This theory states that there exists an arrangement among the governed to submit to a common authority. As a result‚ the governed surrender them to a sovereign authority. This theory is an attempt to answer the question‚ “What justifies the existence of the state?” Hobbes‚ Rousseau‚ and Locke were avid

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    persons’."[7] For Berlin‚ negative liberty represents a different‚ and sometimes contradictory‚ understanding of the concept of liberty‚ which needs to be carefully examined. Its later proponents (such as Tocqueville‚ Constant‚ Montesquieu‚ John Locke‚ David Hume and John Stuart Mill‚[citation needed] who accepted Chrysippus’ understanding of self-determination)[8] insisted that constraint and discipline were the antithesis of liberty and so were (and are) less prone to confusing liberty and constraint

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    leaders make the rules for you 8. This takes you OUT of the state of nature 9. Tyranny occurs when power is exercised for private‚ not public‚ good; power is exercised outside the bounds of law and fails to preserve the property of citizens 10. John Locke believed people had a natural right to overthrow their leaders‚ should those leaders betray them. By socialization we mean the processes which one learns of appropriate behaviour and ways of thinking. Informal socialization occurs

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    say that we have an enduring self? Do we depend on others or are we independent? I believe that we do have an enduring self. We are not fully independent we depend on others to know who we really are. Philosophers like Plato‚ Rene Descartes‚ and John Locke believed that we all have an enduring self. A self that never changes‚ that keeps us the same person from the moment we are born till we die. According to philosopher Diotima‚ “we speak of an individual as being the same as long as he continues

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    about human nature and "the state of nature"‚ a condition in which the human race finds itself prior to uniting into civil society. Hobbes’ Leviathan goes on to propose a system of power that rests with an absolute or omnipotent sovereign‚ while Locke‚ in his Treatise‚ provides for a government responsible to its citizenry with limitations on the ruler’s powers. The understanding of the state of nature is essential to both theorists’ discussions. For Hobbes‚ the state of nature is equivalent

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    John Locke and Thomas Hobbes were both social contract theorists and natural law theorists. Locke can be rightfully thanked for being one of the first people to come up with ideas that eventually became a part of Americas and Britain’s constitution. Locke believed that man was good by nature while Hobbes believed that man was bad and that society would not exist were it not for the power of the state. Locke on the other hand said the state only exists to keep the natural rights of its citizens. Thomas

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