One view we both share is that we strongly agree that animal lives and environment must be protected. My admiration for animals is incredibly strong, and I would do anything to defend such beautiful creatures. Likewise, I am a solid believer in equal rights such as gay marriage. ... I am very passionate about into woman's rights. ... That is why I am pro gay rights and other equality views. ...

• Word Count: 899
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Besides, Hobbes was influenced by another great thinker - Rene Descartes, who asserted that animal is a difficult machine. ... Equality in concerns of power and rights, everybody has the same power and rights, and it will not cause such an aggressive competitive and angry environment. ... Besides, he suggested, that the human beings are social animals anyway they would cooperate, since they are so by nature. ... Human becomes like an animal in the state of nature. ... According to Rousseau, people have no rights at all in Hobbes's social contract. ...

• Word Count: 1724
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Only the human animal can do this and this gives us real freedom. ... So we elect in a democracy a person to govern us and protect our rights. ... If we did not have rules, we would be no different than animals in a jungle. ...

• Word Count: 397
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Hobbes's construction of the state, as a nominalist hypothesis, begins with the division of history into two categories; "natural history," which is the effects of nature, and the history of plants, animals and countries, and the implications to man-kind. ... Through such hypothesis Hobbes is able to define man, and build a an argument of man and the common-wealth based upon his natural animal instincts. ... Hobbes views the "right of nature" as a position in which his actions under the "state of nature" bestow certain rights, with mans behaviour being unrestrained, their actions are ...

• Word Count: 2082
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

How he is by birth as well as how he evolves within the State of Nature are what differs between each philosophers work, The journey into this social phenomenon, the voluntary submission of natural man's rights in order to enter into a form of civil authority or government, is unique to each philosopher. ... " This states how natural man again may execute another man in defense of his natural rights of "life, health, liberty, and possession" (Locke 9). So, should these rights ever come under threat by another, natural man is permitted, even encouraged, to seek justice in wh...

• Word Count: 3200
• Approx Pages: 13

Limits must be put on freedom and inalienable rights. ... In Rousseau's Social Contract, man is depicted as a "stupid and unimaginative animal." ... A government where the power is limited and used to secure individual rights is necessary. ... A government is formed with the basic purpose to serve the rights of the common good of the people. Locke justifies revolution if the government is not protecting the rights of the subjects. ...

• Word Count: 1674
• Approx Pages: 7

People will then behave according to the "laws of nature" which according to him include natural freedom and moral equality (also called their natural rights). ... John Locke also conceptualized the property rights idea. ... When this is applied to the state of nature where there is probably no law; such rights cannot be defended or even claimed. ... According to Thomas Hobbes, man living in a state of nature which lacks sovereign will be living like a beast or wild animal in the jungle. ... Therefore the establishment of the sovereign makes it possible for the lives of mankind to be protected...

• Word Count: 2387
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

He explains that an Athenian earns his freedom and citizenship by subduing his animal instincts and passions. ... Each citizen could speak and each citizen had a vote, but Constant states the political rights to vote should not be valued higher than the individual liberties of modern democracies. ...

• Word Count: 888
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He notes that man is a violent animal who likes conflict, and suggests in both essays that the only way to solve these factions is to allow for a society where many of them form such that they limit each other's powers. ... In Essay #10, Madison tackles the question of how to deal with factions whose interests or goals may be in contention with the people's rights. As he would later acknowledge in Essay #51, Madison believed that forming one big and powerful republic was the ultimate answer to providing all these rights. ...

• Word Count: 1364
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Introduction The assignment is based on the whole character sketch of John Locke and what he felt about almost everything in the spheres of Politics. He was the founder of utilitarianism and that is one of the most important in a democracy. He is one of the few thinkers who never let the conseque...

• Word Count: 7056
• Approx Pages: 28
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Locke agrees with Rousseau, that man is free naturally, but also adds that people are entitled to three undeniable rights: life, liberty and property. ... Rousseau believed that in the State of Nature, humans had two base feelings, compassion and pity; he argued that these two feelings were most natural and that these feelings could even be found in animals. ... Locke's essential argument is that people are born equal, with natural rights in a state of nature in which they live free from outside rule. ... According to Locke this Law of Reason restrains men from infringing on the rights of...

• Word Count: 2158
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

he Open Society The concept of an open society is a term first employed by Sir Karl Popper in his 1950 book the Open Society and Its Enemies. The term essentially means a society in which the state has as little control as is possible for the state to function in a coherent and decent fashion. A...

• Word Count: 1402
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The Social Contract is meant to unfetter each individual, each irrational "animal," and help man to fully know his freedom by using self-control and by signing himself over to the civil state: to the communal movement towards the common good, directed by the general will (Book I: VIII 185). ... No one person has any rights that are different from another, and the rights of each individual within this unified body must be in agreement with the state. ... By strict enforcement of the guidelines that will allow land occupancy by an individual and/or individuals grouped together, even in cases ...

• Word Count: 7115
• Approx Pages: 28
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Social Contract is meant to unfetter each individual, each irrational "animal," and help man to fully know his freedom by using self-control and by signing himself over to the civil state: to the communal movement towards the common good, directed by the general will (Book I: VIII 185). ... No one person has any rights that are different from another, and the rights of each individual within this unified body must be in agreement with the state. ... By strict enforcement of the guidelines that will allow land occupancy by an individual and/or individuals grouped together, even in cases ...

• Word Count: 7114
• Approx Pages: 28
• Grade Level: Undergraduate