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    introduced. John Locke and Thomas Hobbes were both social contract theorists that have two very different opinions about how exactly we behave and what type of governing body would be most successful. While both Hobbes and Locke agree that individual power must be forfeited in order to achieve peace‚ Hobbes’s idea of how much power is extreme. Locke’s theories explain human nature more accurately and portray a better form of government through his ideas on natural right and democracy. John Locke describes

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    Widely considered the father of the enlightenment‚ John Locke was a British doctor‚ politician‚ and philosopher who believed that people are naturally good and deserve the right to help govern themselves. He also strongly believed in the inalienable rights to life‚ liberty‚ and property- natural rights. This idea of natural rights and that of a direct constitutional democracy have served as a template for many countries’ government systems‚ including the founding documents of the United States

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    Hobbes vs. Locke Many philosophers‚ such as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes‚ have discussed over the years if he human race is naturally good or evil. People than choice their side of the argument‚ one side believing that humans have a basically good nature that is corrupted by society‚ while the other side believes that humans have a bad nature that is kept in check by society. As John Locke believes that the human race is good‚ it is reasonable to accept as true because we are born neutral‚ with free

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    John Locke’s theory of property is tailored to the natural law of obligation. Locke‚ in The Second Treatise‚ develops his argument by discussing how God created humans within the state of nature and gave them a right to self-preservation‚ including a right to property. It is stated that Locke gave mankind the ability to use nature’s products. This introduced the right of labor. The value of individual labor is conditional within the terms of appropriation. In order for society to override particular

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    In the Second Treatise of Government by John Locke‚ he writes about the right to private property. In the chapter which is titled "Of Property" he tells how the right to private property originated‚ the role it plays in the state of nature‚ the limitations that are set on the rights of private property‚ the role the invention of money played in property rights and the role property rights play after the establishment of government.. In this chapter Locke makes significant points about private property

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    fathers voice as they speak to them as an infant. Early learning as newborns to a year old is the foundation. John Locke believed that children are born with the ability to become anything or anyone they desire to become. They also have the ability to absorb anything being taught to them. I agree with Locke about the morals and values of a child. As the saying "garbage in‚ garbage out" implies Locke believed if a child watched and was taught immoral behavior they would follow the same pattern. Some children

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    John Locke should be one of the one’s that have the most impact on the Enlightenment because he proclaimed that men are free by nature and should not be subject to a monarchy. In Locke’s “Two Treatises of Government‚” he strongly defends that men are free and equal and that they have rights such rights like life‚ liberty‚ and property that are independent of any particular laws of the society and that no one can take these rights away from you. Locke thought that all people were reasonable and

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    Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were both seventeenth century English thinkers and writers. Each had their own views the government’s role and human nature which were vastly different from one another. They expressed their ideas in their works‚ Hobbes’s Leviathan and Locke’s Two Treatises of Government. Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan in 1651‚ two years after the end of the English Civil War. In it‚ he supported an absolute monarchy and claimed that people had no qualms about compromising basic

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    this period‚ the “human ability to reason was glorified.” John Locke was an English man who believed that “the power of the government to rule must come from the consent of the governed.” That is to say‚ that the people should be able to choose who governs them. Locke also came up with the idea of “natural rights—the view that everybody has the right of life‚ liberty and the ownership of property.” Also‚ Locke had the idea of “social contract” which is the concept that

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    The social cycle theory is the theory that history is full of patterns that simply repeat themselves over and over again. In this theory‚ there is social progress‚ but there is also an underlying cycle of major events that define the course. Sociological theories such as this are hard to scientifically prove‚ but there is apparent evidence that supports the cycle theory. The world today is having strikingly similar problems as the world was having in the sixties. One of the first things that Kennedy

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