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Posted on 1/12/2007 [Subscribe at email services , tell others , or Among intellectuals who consider themselves "scientific," wrote Murray Rothbard in The Ethics of Liberty , the phrase "the nature of man" is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull.

Locke versus Hobbes
Locke opposed Thomas Hobbes's view that the original state of nature was “nasty, brutish, and short,” and that individuals through a social contract
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The theory of such a contract, first formulated by the English philosophers Thomas Hobbes (in the Leviathan, 1651) and John Locke, assumes that men at first
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Thomas Hobbes was probably Locke's antithesis. That's not to say that social contract theory as espoused by Hobbes, Rousseau, and Locke were simply
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State of nature & social contract. According to Hobbes' canonical theory, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651). The first modern philosopher to articulate a
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Information about Social contract theory in the Columbia Encyclopedia®. such a contract, first formulated by the English philosophers Thomas Hobbes (in
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He is equally important as a social contract theorist, as he developed an the absolutist political philosophy of Sir Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes.
thomas: social contract and the ethical anarchist
the foil for social contract theory in this paper will be my conception of the social contract theorists, starting chronologically with Thomas Hobbes.
Phil. 1200 Notes #13: Hobbes, The Social Contract Theory To
Biographicalnote: Thomas Hobbes: 17. th. -century British philosopher. Oneof the originators of the social. contract theory. Author of Leviathan, a long
Philosophical Dictionary: Social Contract-Stanton
Distinct versions of social contract theory were proposed by Hobbes, Locke, De Anima / On the Soul (Penguin, 1987) {at Amazon.com}; Thomas Aquinas,
Why Be Moral? Social Contract Theory Versus Kantian-Christian Morality
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