{"id":31716,"date":"2024-08-31T03:04:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T03:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/contrast-thomas-hobbes-and-john-lockes-positions-on-the-authority-of-the-sovereign\/"},"modified":"2024-08-31T03:04:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T03:04:12","slug":"contrast-thomas-hobbes-and-john-lockes-positions-on-the-authority-of-the-sovereign","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/contrast-thomas-hobbes-and-john-lockes-positions-on-the-authority-of-the-sovereign\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Contrast Thomas Hobbes and John Locke&#8217;s positions on the authority of the Sovereign.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Contrast Thomas Hobbes and John Locke&#8217;s positions on the authority of the Sovereign.&#8221; based on this video and attachted readings.<\/p>\n<div>Full instruction included in attamtchments as word document.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N2LVcu01QEU<\/div>\n<div>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DsGD8nlMTOo<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto;\">Chapter 13<\/span><\/strong><br style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto;\">Hobbes seems to follow another author (whom we are not going to read), Machiavelli, in the lowering of the goals of political life.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto;\">In this chapter, we see that man is apparently equal. But what is man? What does he do? And how does he act? &nbsp;What is the ground of government? &nbsp;Why do we have government? &nbsp;What is mankind like without any government? Consider the answers to these and other questions as you read.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><em style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto;\">Something to think about: &nbsp;What does Hobbes&#8217;s &#8220;state of nature&#8221; look like? &nbsp;Be descriptive!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto;\">Chapter 14, pp. 79-82<\/span><\/strong><br style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto;\">Hobbes continues to speak about natural law and contracts. Once again, Hobbes forces us to raise several questions.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto;\">Think about how the beginnings influence the lives of those who are in government.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><em style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto;\">Something to think about: What is Liberty to Hobbes?&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto;\">Chapter 15, pp. 88-89<\/span><\/strong><br style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: var(--color-1); font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto;\">In this chapter, Hobbes gives us a definition of justice and injustice. &nbsp;Or, rather, he poses where we receive our understanding of these concepts.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: var(--color-1); font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto;\">Hobbes also poses where our ability to know comes from.&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"color: var(--color-1); font-variant-caps: inherit; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto;\">These two questions should be most in the forefront of your mind: What is Justice to Hobbes? &nbsp;Where does it come from?<\/span><\/em>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Contrast Thomas Hobbes and John Locke&#8217;s positions on the authority of the Sovereign.&#8221; based on this video and attachted readings. Full instruction included in attamtchments as word document.&nbsp; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N2LVcu01QEU https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DsGD8nlMTOo Chapter 13Hobbes seems to follow another author (whom we are not going to read), Machiavelli, in the lowering of the goals of political life.&nbsp;In this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[28],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/31716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/31716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=31716"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=31716"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=31716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}