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This 3 page paper examines the theories of Hobbes and Mill and sees Hobbes as having the most responsible theory. This paper is written in response to a prompt claiming that after a nuclear war the people must choose a new government. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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have been exposed to democracy. A new government is needed and these survivors have to come up with a plausible method of governance. Which government is best? What might Hobbes
or Mill recommend? In examining the theories of Hobbes and Mill, it seems that Hobbes sees the need for law and order to take control of the wants of human
beings, whereas Mill sees man as a free being. In designing a government, each of these philosophers would likely take a different tact. Mill would want a libertarian government where
freedom and democracy is at the forefront, whereas Hobbes sees control as more desirable than the allowance of choice. In The Leviathan, Hobbes talks about mans nature and in a
chapter entitled "Of the Causes, Generation and Definition of a Commonwealth" he writes: "For all men are by nature provided of notable multiplying glasses (that is their passions and self-love)
through which every little payment appeared a great grievance, but are destitute of those prospective glasses (namely moral and civil science) to see afar off the miseries that hang over
them and cannot without such payments be avoided" (Hobbes, 1660). What Hobbes does in Leviathan is to address the problems inherent in the nature of man and provide a justification
for the creation of government. For Hobbes, "human law and order made sense out of the state of chaos that was inherently found in nature" (Lindvig & Matchett, 1990,
p. 40). Hobbes believes in a government that would exercise a great deal of control over the people, and for their own good. Mill, on the other hand, is a
utilitarian. Central to the theory of utilitarianism is the premise that it is ideal to achieve the greatest happiness for the greatest number (McLeish, 1995). In his well known
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