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. ... John Locke elaborates on the beliefs of Thomas Hobbes in his Two Treatises of Government. According to Locke's design for an efficient and just political system, he uses Hobbes' idea of the state of nature coupled with a need for rationality, and as Luther expressed, reason. Locke also concerns himself mo...

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English philosopher Thomas Hobbes's novel Leviathan (1651), John Locke's The Second Treasite of Government (1690), and Genevian philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (1755) political theories and ideologies held an immense influence on the shaping of governmental systems and society in Europe and America. ... Contrary to Hobbes another English philosopher, John Locke, introduced in 1690 from his work, The second Treatise of Government, the idea that the State of Nature is actually "A state of perfect freedom" (The Second Treatise of Government Loc...

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Locke wanted to understand the limits of human understanding. ... Locke concluded that humans were by nature free, equal, and independent. ... Locke wrote about toleration in church and of man. ... Vaughn wrote John Locke Economist and Social Scientist (Univ. ... Today Wall Street and Allen Greenspan use Locke's writings to form their opinions of currency. ...

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