Our declaration of revolt against kings and intrusive parliaments was possible because of the theoretical framework provided ...

I’m watching, fascinated. I’m thinking, “We are back to Hobbes’ and Locke’s state of nature.” Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were 17th century English political philosophers who wrote about the origins ...

In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes set forth the argument that when “men live without other security than what their own strength ...

Publication date 1999 Topics Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679, Locke, John, 1632-1704, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, Social contract Publisher Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Collection ...

The Whigs were too; like Locke, they framed their vision of freedom much more in terms of rights and the rule of law than their Roman and Renaissance forebears had.

But, to pull in another philosopher, John Locke, people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property, and the purpose of government is to protect these natural rights.

Hobbes and Locke were responding even more directly to the political strife and violence close to home, specifically the English civil wars of the mid-17th century, during which a king was ...

If families were truly miniature states, as suggested by Bodin and Hobbes, the power of the parent would not be temporary in this manner. John Locke, contra Hobbes, recognized that state and paternal ...

Investopedia / Julie Bang Early Life and Education Locke was born in England on Aug. 29, 1632. His father John, an attorney, and mother Agnes baptized him the morning of his birth and raised him ...

It is his contention that, with the phrase la verità effettuale della cosa, Machiavelli really did effect a revolution—that he laid the foundation both for modern science, with its single-minded focus ...

Books by Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman as well as Wollstonecraft, Austen, Woolf, Baldwin, Hurston and Orwell are worthy of introductory collegiate courses for ...

Hobbes was no liberal. Although twentieth-century political philosophers often recognized Hobbes, along with John Locke a generation later, as one of the founding fathers of liberalism, this ...