Essays on Thomas Hobbes

Law creates standards, keeps order, settles conflicts and protects the human rights and freedoms. However, a lawless society will suffer with chaos and crime. Hence, various philosophers have given their educated version and reasonings on the purpose of law, which have been referred to, throughout…

Hobbes or Locke? Thomas Hobbes and John Locke both have their own ideas on human nature. But, which of the two has the right idea? According to Hobbes, people are born evil, and if given the chance, they will save themselves rather than others and…

Man’s State of Nature and How Ideas Are Formed Thomas Hobbes and John Locke both have unique ideas about human nature and the way that ideas are formed in humans’ heads. Predicting human actions and analyzing what causes them is not something that can be…

Thomas Hobbes In the Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes is describing what makes up the core conditions of human nature and the constant state of war people face with each other from living in a state of nature. The state that humanity lives in now has come…