Calvin and Hobbes

such as Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Hobbes, and Locke had many different ideal forms of government and major beliefs, shaping today’s world. Rousseau wrote that the process made by civilization and enlightenment had corrupted the human nature. Montesquieu had a different view, as he favored the English system of separation of powers. Voltaire was a strong supporter of monarchal power, writing History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great. Hobbes believed that internal strife within…

Golding’s Lord of the Flies (LoF) follows a group of young schoolboys left alone on an island to show that when man is stripped bare, only uncontrollable savagery remains. Also, no form of government can control the way men truly are. Philosopher Thomas Hobbes shows a similar theory about the nature of mankind in Leviathan as savage and without morals; however, he advocates for an absolute monarchy, believing that men can be controlled if they willingly give up their power. Other philosophers,…

knowledge as understood by Machiavelli and Hobbes differs according to their interpretations of human nature, fear, and individualism, which consequently affects the way they view and approach political systems. Regarding the nature of man, Machiavelli and Hobbes are both disdainful and state openly that man is essentially a miserable creature. Machiavelli claims that all men “...are wicked and will always give vent to their evil impulses” (discourses,92). Hobbes’ work echoes this sentiment in…

Thomas Hobbes, a political philosopher who established the social contract theory and became a foundation in Western political philosophy. When presented this claim: "The more equal people are, the easier it is for them to live in peace. If people were perfectly equal, there would be no more wars.", Hobbes response to this assertion would have been rejection, according to his book; The Citizens. He would be at this conclusion because he does not think humans should live in equality. He believes…

right to avoid conflict within an individual. Hobbes states, “war of every one against every one,” which means that everyone has the same interest, which is survival. Human does everything to survive, example, when you put a group of people on an island with food for each individual. One will eventually try to take another individual possessing, to ensure their survival. These are not just within human, animals and we called…

motion, as Hobbes describes it, is the motion the mind considers: not necessarily controls, but dependent on a precedent thought. These thoughts stem from imagination and are what Hobbes calls “endeavor” (314). Endeavor in favor of something he calls desire or love, against he calls aversion or hate, and neither he considers contempt or immobility. Man, according to Hobbes, is driven by their endeavors. This is an essential part of man for Hobbes, he compares its presence in man to that of fear…

prime examples we can look at today are Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Both John Locke and Thomas Hobbes have major differences in their perception of the state of nature. Both seem to have major divides in regards…

Aristotle states that moral virtues are not inherent sources of reason but can be influenced by reason to aid in the acquisition of happiness. Hobbes believes that moral virtues are dispositions that are influenced by reason to make men more inclined to avoid returning to a state of nature. Hobbes makes the most compelling arguments mainly due to his pragmatism and understanding of the nature of man. His argument against an objective good thoroughly debunks the pomposity…

depicted in the Bible, which later became the name of his treatise (Fiero, 2011). Nevertheless, Hobbes believes that if there is no leader, then there is no justification for good or bad, no man will know if what he is doing is even wrong. He states that there is no law until a person creates it, because there is no justice or injustice in nature, but only in society (“Hobbes Leviathan,” 2012). Hobbes also includes in his treatise the Leviathan that there are two things that allow people to…

Marcel Mauss’s essay titled “The Gift” published in 1925, focused on the way exchange of objects between groups, builds relationships between them. He argued that giving an object creates an inherent obligation on the receiver to reciprocate the gift, thus resulting in a series of exchanges between groups, therefore providing us with one of the earliest forms of social solidarity used by humans. Mauss describes Melanesian and Polynesian peoples, gift economy as one of material and moral life, it…