Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jaques Rousseau were three enlightenment thinkers who each drafted different ideas about the state of nature, and political solutions to make society and government more utopia-like. ... Hobbes believed that humans were not driven by a higher purpose, that they were merely physical, and that human life was nasty, short, poor, brutish, and solitary. ... Humans a lot of the time think that their desires are good, when in fact they are quite bad, which Hobbes writes about in Leviathan. To keep humans and their constant desires in line, Hobbes suggests the sover...

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Thomas Hobbes, the famous author of "Leviathan", (1651), was a theorist on the law, the state of nature and the concept of social contract, and as such, one of the founders of modern political philosophy. ... In fact, several great philosophers and authors rose to say that Hobbes and  Rousseau are not the philosophers that they pretended to be. ... Hobbes witnessed civil wars in England and in France, the Cromwell Dictature, and the killing of Charles I. ... Furthermore, when Hobbes talks about the designation of a sovereign, we can also give an other interpretation. ... Additi...

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However, another philosopher by the name of Thomas Hobbes comes in contrast with John Locke. In Hobbes book "Leviathan" he argued that humans are not rational and could not properly make decisions for themselves, therefore concluding that man is bad in nature. Hobbes fought for an authoritarian government run by one man who makes all the rational decisions for them. ... Another philosopher by the name of Thomas Hobbes would disagree with that. ... Hobbes also believed that there was a danger in electing a strong leader in a liberal democracy. ...

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