Since they were delivered, some of the essays have been modified, but the original thrust of the lecture series has been preserved. ... Goodrich founded Liberty Fund Inc., a foundation given over to the programmatic and philosophic study of society made up of free and responsible individuals. ... These essays examine the meaning given to the concept of liberty in selected periods of Western history. ... Free will, that quality which characterizes the uniqueness of human beings, is evidenced in their acts, behaviors, and choices. ... To embrace relativism is to bring about the end of liberty g...

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"Man in the State of Nature;" which is further discussed in this essay as well as in the works themselves, is the characterization of the natural man. ... Natural men are free, "masterlesse men, without subjection to Lawes, and a coercive Power" (Hobbes 141). ... In Locke's terms even though man has the complete liberty to conduct himself however he likes, he is not free to frivolously harm another because he is bound by reason and the law of nature. ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau, our third and final philosopher, was a native Genevian who in his 1755 essay, The Discourse o...

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MASTERWORKS OF POLITICAL THEORY Midterm Essay Niccolo Machiavelli, Martin Luther, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke were four political theorists who shared a like mind in the need for the foundation of government and the extent to which its power and authority should reach. ... His essay, Secular Authority: How Far Should It Be Obeyed was, in comparison to the other authors to be discussed herein, based more on the theological thinking of the 16th century. ... With the implementation of government, man's compromise is complete as he enters into the social contract and is free of the f...

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(Laycock, Essay Topics) The solution is to compare the arguments and juxtapose the views of Hobbe's and Locke on the particular question and conclude that the most logical argument is most likely the most logical solution. ...

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He wrote an essay which was entitled, 'Thoughts on Education'. And from that essay it could be deciphered that he was most unhappy at school. ... Concept of Human Nature Locke's view on man is summed up in his Essay on Human Understanding. ... He opined in his Essay on Human Understanding, (in three chapters) that there are no universally binding moral laws. ... He thought that all humans are born free. ...

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Locke concluded that humans were by nature free, equal, and independent. ... An Essay on Man, a poetic summary of current philosophical speculation projects man's perfection in the life to come. ... Fifth, Spinoza was schooled in theology, but evolved to free philosophical speculation. ... "That in a free state every man may think what he likes, and say what he thinks". 8 This was his plea for religious liberty with no restraints to man. ...

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The Lear described in many critical essays sounds less like Shakespeare's monarch than the middle-class recreations of Lear in the nineteenth-century fiction of writers like Balzac and Turgenev. ... In another essay on "King Lear," I have tried to extend Jaffa's analysis, analyzing the process of education the king undergoes when he loses power. ... In this essay, I will examine largely the second half of King Lear, and trace what happens to Lear when he learns the truths to which his position as king initially blinded him. ...

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In the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke speculated about how politics must confront the issue "of freedom the will of the individual"(Locke, 43) and how their freedom must be subject to "constant, certain, and known principals"(Locke, 44), so that when conflicts of justifying rights emerge the government will have a guide by which to reference their decision against. ...

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