Hobbes vs locke government
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'Hobbes vs. Locke': The battle continues
PROPERTY RIGHTS FORM the foundation of our political system; without them we have no freedom. Thus it is disturbing to see these rights eroded both in our courts and through bureaucratic action. The central role of property rights in our system of government must be reinforced.
The importance of personal property has been recognized by both friend and foe. James Madison, who has been called "the father of the U.S. Constitution," set forth government's duty concerning property as follows: "Government is instituted to protect property of every sort. ... This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own." In "The Communist Manifesto," Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels reduced their political beliefs to one central point. "The theory of the Communists," they wrote, "may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property."
While the conflict between communist and democratic states has had a monumental effect on the history of the last century, the current clash over the role of property rights in the United States and Michigan is less a vestige of those conflicts than of the philosophical battle between Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.
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AS/POLS 2900.6A
Perspectives on Politics
2010-11
January 20 – Comparison with Hobbes; Locke’s Original Contribution
John Locke was the second most influential thinker coming out of the seventeenth century, second only to Hobbes, although his influence with contemporaries was much greater than that of Hobbes. When Locke was writing his major works, the civil war in England was over. The monarchy had been restored in 1660, so he was living in much more settled and peaceful times. His popularity with his contemporaries comes from his Two Treatises’ being a justification of the “Whig Revolution”, the Glorious Revolution of 1689. That “revolution” was an all but bloodless sort of coup d’etat in which King James II was replaced by William and Mary of the House of Orange. It was not much of a revolution, but it did secure final confirmation of the supremacy of Parliament within the British state.
Locke’s theory was much more popular than Hobbes’s inasmuch as he was a far better ideologist of a market society, of bourgeois society. In what way? Hobbes’s theory was quite a grim and rather frightening picture of the nature of social relations and of the human being that led inexorably to the conclus
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Hobbes, Locke, refuse the Group Contract
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