This is an essay about Hobbes Lockes and Rosseaus beliefs on politics
... Explain Hobbes’ treatment of human nature and the state of human nature. Hobbes first and foremost explains that every person has human nature and that men by nature are equal. ... Without experience Hobbes says we would be not be able to have a history. ... Hobbes says that you do not learn by history but by reason alone. ... Where he can express his feelings about something or someone. ... Hobbes says that the ability to reason lets us be able to tell what is right and wrong. ... Hobbes says that our ability to reason is like a fishes ability to swim, without it, we would be like all others, and probably just die off. ... This is something a person is always born with Hobbes says. ... So basically by today everyone has a tremendous passionate ability and therefore the bar is set much higher for average passionate ability today than it was in Hobbes’ time. ... Man is made up of stimulus and response Hobbes says. ... Hobbes’ theory of the State of Nature is of a time before there were laws, which was basically the cavemen times. People living in Hobbes’ State of Nature desired, had an appetite, and wanted power. ... Hobbes believed there was no emotion or love it was pure survival. ... Like I stated earlier, Hobbes believed without the ability to reason humans were just like other animals, which they were in this situation. Hobbes believes in this type of environment, there are no progress and no development. ... The only way Hobbes believes people can escape the hell is the people must all consent to move onto the Social Contract. ... It is money not politics that drives people and makes up the social classes. ... The Protestants had to work together to try and get their message out to the public that there were other beliefs besides Catholicism. ... Fisher should us an example of Locke’s beliefs on property with an apple tree. ... Now what I think about Locke’s theories is that he was basing his stuff on the time in which he wrote them. ... They vaguely remember the stories that they heard from their great grandparents about the transition period where everything was so horrible. ... Discuss Hobbes’ contract theory – why does he use the theory? ... Hobbes’ believes there should be no checks and balances on the government. ... Hobbes believes that all people are good therefore everyone is honest in his book. ... Preventing invasion is the army which is also like a law and upholding contracts is a being honest about if one signed the contract or not. ... Hobbes says that totalitarianism is good. ... This is why Hobbes believes that the Social Contract should be somewhat a totalitarian state. Hobbes states that the government has natural limitations installed within it. ... Hobbes says that there should be no correlation with the state and religion. ... Revolution and war are two things that Hobbes does not want in his Social Contract. ... Hobbes uses the theory because it is his own opinion about how he thinks society changes. Society goes through many changes and Hobbes is only trying to think of logical explanations of each change. ... Hobbes always uses reason in his theories because he has no facts to go by to come up with his theories.