Dylan Thomas

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…

John Locke, an English philosopher, once said, “All men are naturally in a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.” A person’s idea of freedom can be completely different from someone else’s even if both people live in the same country. One person can think of freedom as being economically independent and another person…

growing up with a father, and growing up without a father. Both books include a character that leads to success, one book also has a character that has a fallout and ends up with the opposite of success. The two books are Losing My Cool written by Thomas Chatterton Williams and the second is The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore. Having a father can give you someone to look up too, guide you, and help you throughout life. “What he hoped was that if he could somehow just make reading and studying…

In Thomas Hobbs’s Leviathan, he asserts that to have order in a society there must be an absolute sovereignty to defend against war and conflicts and that within a society, there must be regulation to avoid internal conflict. Hobbs theorizes we must give up our individual rights to a greater governing authority and that doing so is essential to our survival. Indeed, his assertion is valid because human instinct tends to be self-interested; humans will do whatever it takes to survive, so an…

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…

Before coming to this country, first important things that I been taught about this country was July 4th 1776. July 4th was a heroic day for the America. When it come to July four you would see many people gather together and celebrate this memorial day. People would do firework and BBQ with their family and friend. It was the only day that you would see and heard a lot of fireworks all day and night. I had learned it was the day American gain their independent from the Great British. They had…

Reading the title of the book reveals one of the main characters, Jakob. The back of the book reveals more information about him. He is a Roma boy living in Austria during World War II. He is trying to run from the Nazi’s persecution of the Roma people within Europe. Colors seem to play an important part in the book as they are in the title and are described in the back of the book. This book is a fictional story written by Lindsay Hawdon. After writing this book, she traveled to seven different…

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison wrote against having slavery in America. Madison, in The Federalist article 51, says that a civil society ends when a “stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker.” When the weaker are “not secured against…

Confederation, and the Federal Constitution, were presented by John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, and Thomas Paine. This 18th Century movement was considered a new way of thinking, but led to many changes in the way people perceived their government. The first document…

it would be disastrous and impossible without a government. The way, in which one envisions the society will have drastic consequences for how the state and function is perceived. Two 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…