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. ... 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 civ...

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Plato as a philosopher criticized democracy as a government not fit to fully represent the eligible citizens or the majority. ... Plato's first and best government is aristocracy; this is a case in which the ruler is a philosopher, someone whose soul has been educated through the contemplation of arts and the exercise of the intellect. ... Plato said that for kings to rule fairly, they should receive the education that will make them philosopher kings and this will be hard to achieve mainly because there will be no consensus concerning the standards of the education for one to be a philo...

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He and other political philosophers of the time taught that governmental and political power should come from the people (Lefebvre; Lee). ... The concept of democracy continued to be prevalent in Europe with the philosophies of an English philosopher by the name of John Locke and a French philosopher named Jean Jacques Rousseau. ... In essence, these two philosophers said that the people should have input on how their government is run. ... In this great document, written by Thomas Jefferson, many ideas are taken from the aforementioned philosophers, Locke and Rousseau. ... Political thinkers ...

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Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, two British philosophers, have spent a great deal of their lives thinking and arguing extensively on this subject. ... Using Hobbes' theories from The Leviathan and Locke's theories in the Second Treatise of Government to evaluate Hobbes' claim, the question posed by Hobbes will be answered by these two philosophers themselves. ...

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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. Furthermore, although they differed in some of the fundamental arguments, they were all in agreement as to the nature of man and his driving need to exist in an ordered and symbiotic society. Different arguments are put forward by the aforementioned theorists as to whether or not this need is born out of necessity, base...

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The Influence of the Greeks on American Democracy "Tyranny is the rule of one man to the advantage of the ruler, oligarchy to the advantage of the rich, democracy to the advantage of the poor." -Aristotle Democracy: a form of government that makes political decisions directly exercised by the whole ...

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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 consequences around him affect him adversely; in fact he was one of the very few people who learned from their mistakes. There are people who can go on cribbing about their problems, but John Locke was different, he studied them and experimented and made an attempt to understand why it all happens in the ...

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