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In both Thomas Hobbes Leviathan and John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government both describe “the state of nature”. However, for both authors the view point on the “natural instincts” humans possess differs in multiple ways. For Hobbes the state of nature deals with the savagery of Americans, lead to criminal activity and involves two natural passions while Locke’s state of nature involves a state of equality. Both Hobbes and Locke’s explanation of state of nature have aspects of natural law,…

The period of Enlightenment refers to European culture in the eighteenth century. Back then, people in this period believed that the Enlightenment is the almightiness of human knowledge. This kind of knowledge defied traditional and pre-established thoughts, as well as leading them to overconfidence in their reasoning and rationality. In fact, philosophy became popular among intellectuals and people interested in their opera scripts. In Document A and Document C, they talk about John Locke and…

I think Of Property is considered one of the most and nice chapters in the second treatise. Actually it contains the same theme of the personal liberty which found in the second treatise. So Locke makes it obvious that the man’s individual labor is his own and the laws specify that he gains the rewards from his hard work. So suppose that he picks something, no one else could claim that it does not belong to him. Actually, the scholar Robert figured out that Locke’s idea which is talking about…

Catherine the Great was born and Germany but she died a true Russian. She ruled for 34 years from 1762 to 1996 and during her reign there were many advances to Russia but there were also a lot of troubles (McGuire 104). Catherine was full of contrasts; she could be tyrannical but also tolerant, she could be extremely wise or wildly reckless, and she could be generous but other times ruthless (McGuire 25). Catherine threw herself into her job with great enthusiasm. She loved Russia and adored…

French and English Enlightenment The evolution of thoughts by the intellectuals in France and England ultimately influenced the politics of each nation. The ways in which this transpired, however, are fundamentally distinctive to each country. The main similarity between the French society and the English society is that they both underwent extensive philosophical and scientific development and gained an unprecedented amount of knowledge by way of research and exchange of ideas, with a group…

In 1750, Rousseau created his first major work that would be further developed in the future: Discours les Sciences et les Arts -- better known as the First Discourse. In the First Discourse, Rousseau’s thesis stated “that social development, including of the arts and sciences, is corrosive of both civic virtue and individual moral character” (Stanford Encyclopedia). Rousseau discusses how society has been corrupted by modern morals, leading to individuals following conformism. According to Ty…

Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s conveys the transition in women’s roles throughout the 1940’s in America. In this sense, the protagonist, Holly Golightly, effectively demonstrates this notion in her pursuit of wealth through her sexuality, which communicates the shifting paradigms in the roles of women from the “family” woman to the early beginnings of the modern “independent” woman. Similar to Betty Freidan’s analysis of the unhappiness of women, Capote also relates the notion of power…

Locke thinks the nation of nature as a country of ideal freedom, in which men can order their moves, and dispose of their possessions as they think suit. the liberty of men in the kingdom of nature is handiest limited by way of the law of Nature, individuals can act as they please inside its premises. but the nation of nature is likewise a state of equality wherein all the strength and jurisdiction is reciprocal, nobody having more than some other. Equality derives from the herbal condition of…

Jean Rousseau Micah Palm Prof. Groth 10/13/15 A Man Of All Trades Jean Jacques Rousseau was born in a the small, but friendly country of Switzerland. Rousseau was born on June 28th, 1712 in the widely known town of Geneva, Switzerland. Although Rousseau did not stay long, having begun an apprenticeship at the early age of thirteen. By the age of sixteen young Rousseau was already on his way to France, where he would begin his journey as the famous philosopher, composer, educationalist, and…

A Discourse on Inequality, published in 1755 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an essay submitted into a competition out of hundreds of competitors that also applied happened to win. This discourse exceptional read about inequality before and after man meant society. Equality was an important and essential aspect of life, as it proceed to seem unchangeable and then meeting miraculous change. Rousseau did a proficient job explaining the various steps of how man came to be unequal from a state of…