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This 5 page
report discusses Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and John Locke
(1632-1704) and their points of view as related to the concept of
“majority” (Locke) and sovereignty (Hobbes). . In Leviathan,
Thomas Hobbes presents man as a machine operating on the basis of
cause-and-effect or stimulus-response. Locke believes that the
only reason society degenerates to armed conflict and strife is
because of a depletion of the essential ingredients of an
individual or a community’s self-preservation.
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knowledge and the ways in which human beings learn and reach certain levels of understanding. It should also be noted that the two shared a number of connections that led
toward something of a synthesis of thought in many aspects of their thinking and concerns. For example, historians have noted that Hobbes Leviathan clearly had an enormous influence on Lockes
thinking since he adopted many of its views as his own - the essential rationality of man, the theories of natural right, natural law, the state of nature, and the
social contract. In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes presents man as a machine operating on the basis of cause-and-effect or stimulus-response. Man seeks to achieve a single goal-the satisfaction of human
appetite. Appetite arises out of sensation as the external world presses upon human sense organs. The sights, smells, touches, and sounds of pleasurable things gives rise to appetite. Appetite gives
rise to will; will precedes action. Fundamentals of Locke In his Second Treatise on Civil Government (1689), which is considered his greatest contribution in the realm of political theory,
John Locke specifically centers his view on a rather narrowly defined aspect of politics, the part, he explains, that is most concerned with "the True Original, Extent, and End of
Civil Government." While his major focus is the framework of justifiable and workable government, Locke also establishes the issues and viability relating to virtue. Locke believes that the
only reason society degenerates to armed conflict and strife is because of a depletion of the essential ingredients of an individual or a communitys self-preservation. Those ingredients, include:
the right to private property which is grounded in the exercise of the virtues of rationality and industry; the powers of government must be separated because virtue is always in
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