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    Thomas Hobbes and John Locke represent the beginning of political science in the seventeenth century‚their ideas on what government should or shouldn’t do would be refined by Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers thus becoming the basis of the constitutional democracy of the United States. Hobbes took a very different approach than Locke in what he thought of humans in general;the same goes for political matters. He thought people were savages when born and only under someone else’s leadership

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    influencing two famous philosophical men. Thomas Hobbes‚ author of Leviathan‚ and John Locke‚ author of Second Treatise on Civil Government‚ drew on their experiences of England’s monarchical turmoil to conceive very different political theories. Both Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were prominent political philosophers in the

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    The Social Contract The three philosophers‚ Thomas Hobbes‚ John Locke‚ and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were three key thinkers of political philosophy. The three men helped develop the social contract theory into what it is in this modern day and age. The social contract theory was the creation of Hobbes who created the idea of a social contract theory‚ which Locke and Rousseau built upon. Their ideas of the social contract were often influenced by the era in which they lived and social issues that

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    Rousseau and Experience in Education Rousseau strongly believed that the best method for raising children is to allow them to learn by themselves through experience in nature. “He among us who best knows how to bear the goods and the ills of this life is to my taste the best raised: from which it follows that the true education consists less in precept than in practice. We begin to instruct ourselves when we begin to live.” By creating an imaginary child‚ Emile‚ Rousseau is able to show us the

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    Hobbes‚ Locke‚ and Rousseau each have their own theories as to what the state of nature is; however‚ essentially they are trying to describe the same state of nature. Assuming that there is only one state of nature being described in different ways‚ I will attempt to put together a theory of what the state of nature is actually like based on what Hobbes‚ Locke‚ and Rousseau each has to say about it. Moreover‚ understanding the state of nature is important for figuring out what role it played in the

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    necessary to reign in man’s true natures of desire‚ greed‚ and vengeance. In that vein‚ he felt that it was the obligation of the people to surrender certain rights to the will of a sovereign to ensure the well-being of society. His contemporary‚ John Locke‚ while agreeing that people had an obligation to be governed‚ countered that the state of man was generally good. Man was endowed with natural rights and that no sovereign should have the ability to take them away‚ and government should exist to

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Theory of Education: Natural Education Darny Mao November 10‚ 2014 Introduction to Philosophy Providence College Professor Nichols Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a revolutionary French philosopher who in addition held his position in society as an eloquent writer of the Enlightenment Age. Much of Rousseau’s thoughts and theories illuminated through his writings‚ and his works reflected his disdain for contemporary society in which he assured to undermine

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    John Locke‚ an Englishman who lived from 1632 to 1704‚ promoted some of the most influential ideas of the Enlightenment. He pioneered the idea that humans are naturally good‚ and are corrupted by society or government to becoming deviant. Locke described this idea in hisAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding as the tabula rasa‚ a Latin phrase meaning blank slate. The idea was not original to him‚ however. In fact‚ Locke directly took the idea from a Muslim philosopher from the 1100s‚ Ibn Tufail

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    Karl Knotoff 2/6/2013 Env 115 Professor Barker Air Pollution The Reason this article was chosen is to show the “catch 22” of slowing and hopefully preventing the crisis of air pollution and all other aspects of environmental crisis. This article talks about the prophet of Republicans Ronald Reagan expressing his concerns over air pollution and the emissions of greenhouse gasses. The catch 22 is that in this world of profit margins and marketing schemes we live in

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    and that was John Locke. Government should be run how John Locke argues because‚ the government should be fair‚ run where people have rights and freedoms‚ and provide equality for all. People should be able to control their lives and have a say on

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