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This 8 page paper examines classic liberalism along with Marx and Rousseau's ideas. Hobbes and Locke are specifically discussed as liberals of an earlier era. Liberalism is explored. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the people need help. In essence, the people are simply incapable of caring for themselves so they need social programs. Yet, the liberals of an earlier era thought differently. For
example, Hobbes and Locke would see man as something that should exist in a perfect state of nature. That is, men should be free to do as they like. Of
course, it is more complicated than that and while there were other classic liberals, Hobbes and Locke stand out. Both authors paid a great deal of attention to the
nature of man. Hobbes (1660) said: "Nature hath made men so equall, in the faculties of body, and mind; as that though there bee found one man sometimes manifestly
stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another; yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man, and man, is not so considerable, as that one man can
thereupon claim to himself any benefit, to which another may not pretend, as well as he." Here, the author takes the premise that every man by himself is worth just
as much as any other. There is no one better than another. He goes on to say: "For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to
kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others, that are in the same danger" (Hobbes, 1660). Locke (1690) addressed some of the same topics but
did so in a different way. He said: "To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and
that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature,
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