Kimberley Locke

Since discussing the aftermath of the social and political standings is a grey area to think about, I have chosen to conduct a comparison and analysis in regards to the likelihood of this situation occurring using Locke, Hobbes, and Nietzsche theories. The first thinker, John Locke, may very well have the closest connection to the idea and understanding of a living threat to the social order. He “lived in circumstances that forced on him an awareness of the genuine possibility of political chaos

The belief that man, by nature, is good was espoused by the French philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). He believed that people in the state of nature were innocent and at their best and that they were corrupted by the unnaturalness of civilization. In the state of nature, people lived entirely for themselves, possessed an absolute independence, and were content. According to Rousseau, in the state of nature, people tended to be isolated, war was absent, and their desires

How successful were Hobbes and Locke in their attempts to justify the existence of Human Rights? In this essay, the main distinctions of Hobbes and Lock’s work will be discussed and how their work contributed to the existence of human rights. Other predominant thinkers, such as Bentham and Marx will be brought in to critically evaluate Hobbes and Lock’s attempts on human rights. Finally a conclusion will be drawn upon these points to state whether Hobbes or Locke was Successful to justify the existence

objection to Hobbes’ theory of freedom in the state of nature is the idea of bringing others into your power, reasoning that we are not made for one another’s uses and may not, as Locke states, “impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another” (sec. 6). Locke writes that all men have no more power or jurisdiction than the next; that all men are “promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties”

from Hobbes and Locke James Madison, one of the American Founding Fathers famously wrote in The Federalist that “if men were angels, no government would be necessary.” From his 1651 text, The Leviathan, it is clear from his advocacy of philosophical absolutism that Hobbes would have strongly agreed with Madison, especially about human beings needing government to counter the what he believes to be the state of nature. Conversely, in his 1651 Second Treatise of Government, John Locke advocates constitutionalism

The study of philosophy has existed since the beginning of time because of human curiosity. It fueled the minds of countless philosophers, all in pursuit of understanding the world through the five branches Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, Politics, and Esthetics. Throughout the age’s different theories and beliefs of philosophers contributed to our current understanding of the world. During the different eras philosophical beliefs influenced events and documents of the time. The Enlightenment

enshrinement of this ideal is founded on the social contract all members of civil society enter into when they become a part of society. This contract is created from something as well; the law that governed man in its original state of nature, reason. Locke asserts that man was born into the world in a perfect state of freedom to order his own actions. He is capable of reciprocal jurisdiction without consent from any outside influence. Abiding by the law of nature he came to find that all men were independent

an interest in the philosophies of John Locke and connecting his philosophies with the transformation of the creature. John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding is also clear and is under appreciated in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In an article, The Monstrosity of Representation, author Christian Bok has seemed to share similar interests as mine. He has connected Frankenstein to the eighteenth century Enlightenment period by connecting both Locke and Rousseau to the creation of Victor Frankenstein’s

contrary courses; and by this direction given them at first in the source, they receive different tendencies, and arrive at last at very remote and distant places (Cahn, 2012, p. 106). Locke believed that at birth the mind is a blank slate, or tabula rasa, and empty of ideas, but they have natural inclinations. Like John Locke, I believe that education, and developing the mind, is what truly determines character. The mind of a child is impressionable, regardless of their natural tendencies, and education

What is Benevolence without Evil? Evil is a part of mankind; it is something that cannot be defeated. “One recurring theme in early British literature is the idea that evil characters are directly related to experiences of tragedy, pain, confusion, and sadness” (Herrera). In Grendel, tragedy and confusion is seen throughout the story. The theme in the story of Macbeth is tragedy and pain. This early literature exemplifies evil through these themes. The philosophers whose theories support these