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    want to‚ without the government imposing. John Stuart Mill On liberty‚ it illustrates individual freedom‚ along with regard against the tyranny of the majority over thoughts‚ discussion‚ and the limitation on the power of government and society of interfering in our lives.

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    The complex ethical dilemma to be addressed using the three tests for an ethical decision‚ ethical theories‚ and the six step process is as follow: your company is governing a public tender for a project to create a new water treatment system. The ethical uncertainty arises when your inlaws company is unaware of the public tender which closes in two days‚ which would be essential if they hope to be chosen to provide the technologies to implement the new system. The moral dilemma in this case is deciding

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    Comparing and Contrasting Thomas Hobbes and John Locke Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were two of the great political theorists of their time. They both provided wonderful philosophical texts on how our government should govern us. This paper will show the largest differences and some of the similarities between Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan and John Locke’s Second Treatise on Civil Government. Although they do have some similarities‚ Hobbes and Locke have different views on most of their political arguments

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    philosophers are more highly regarded than John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. The ideas and works of these two men have been discussed even to this day. While these two men attack the same topic with a great passion they happen to share a great number of dissimilarities. Whenever these two philosophers are discussed people often focus on their differences‚ however‚ they had several similarities. These two philosophers are both different sides of the

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    views about the old society and the way of living. Aspects of government‚ religion‚ economics and education were criticized. Two political thinkers‚ Thomas Hobbes and John Locke both experienced political hardships throughout their times‚ however they both came to two totally different conclusions on how future government should be ran. Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan expressed his views of how the government should run the people they governed. Leviathan stated that the people should hand over their rights

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    Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are both undoubtedly two of the most well known and written about philosophers of all time. However‚ their theories and ideas on what society is‚ and what society should be should be differ drastically making them different as night and day. Thomas Hobbes had a rather dark view of society and the people in it‚ likely due to the political and civil unrest that he had experienced. This caused him to see humans as inherently hostile and that we are generally incapable

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    state power in England‚ the Dutch Republic‚ and the British North American colonies.” (Hunt 484) These English colonies found their most lasting appearance in the writings of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Many people in Europe preferred absolutist systems and many people also preferred the constitutional systems. Thomas Hobbes justified absolute authority and Locke provided the basis for constitutionalism. The both of them argued that all

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    that address the state of nature are Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. People are inherently evil according to Hobbes‚ who alleged that individuals will look out for their own self interest before that of anyone else‚ resulting in a lawless and hostile environment. On the other end of the spectrum is John Locke. Mankind is inherently good according to Locke. He argues that humans have the ability to push personal desires aside and look toward the needs of the group. John Locke presents a viewpoint which

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    deem valuable. In Utilitarianism‚ John Stuart Mill argues for the existence of ‘higher’ and ‘lower’ pleasures‚ intrinsically separated by value and accessibility (Mill 1863). Examples of John Stuart Mill’s ‘higher’ pleasures include the technical enjoyment of opera or the intellectual stimulation garnered during debate (Mill 1863). ‘Lower’

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    Summary Having already examined whether people should be allowed to hold and express unpopular beliefs‚ Mill looks at the question of whether people should be allowed to act on their opinions without facing legal punishment or social stigma. Mill observes that actions should not be as free as opinions‚ and reasserts that both must be limited when they would cause harm to others and be "a nuisance to other people." However‚ many of the reasons for respecting different opinions also apply to respecting

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