The theory of Human Nature, according to Hobbes, derives from the basis that human appetites and aversions exclusively govern human life, driven by three principle desires: preservation of life, enjoyment of physical pleasures and comforts, and lastly, acquisition or maintainability of power. ... The underlying forces that dictate human life through these appetites and aversions are: life itself, pleasures or comforts, and power. ... This is especially apparent when Hobbes' states "For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is...

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" He maintains that a fair society is one that conforms to the following two rules: Firstly, "each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with similar liberty for others.... He believed that this could be accomplished through each individual giving up his or her right to control their life in exchange for a voice in the establishment of societal rules; appealing to those who listened to surrender their individual rights to a collective body with a singular purpose. He states that this person formed by such a social contract holds in him the g...

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According to the thought of Locke and his many followers, the state exists not to promote people's spiritual salvation, but to serve its citizens and to guarantee their life, liberty, and property under a constitution. ... Mill defended the individual's right to act freely, even to the person's own detriment. ...

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This equality, however, is what leads men to have the equal hope with every other man of reaching their goals or objectives in life which are towards self-preservation or indeed a pleasure and as this equal hope for the same things which ˜nevertheless they cannot both enjoy' (Hobbes, 1651: ) make men eternal enemies. ... Spinoza argues that men are born ignorant of reason is not naturally conditioned in them and by the time they have gained reason through enlightenment and virtue, most of their life has passed anyway and therefore before he has acquired reason, if he ever does, there i...

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