The Grand Inquisitor in Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov An astute observer of the U.S. political scene recently quipped that Hobbes seems to be up by three touchdowns over Locke. The reference ...

Locke redefined the nature of government. He thought the only legitimate government was one in which a ruler gains his power and authority by the consent of the governed. Thomas Hobbes argued that ...

Without Hobbes, there would have been no need for John Locke to react to him, and without Locke, no Paine or Jefferson, no Hegel or Marx. This brings us to the present day, where Ryan ends “On ...

But it would be much better if I could--in some deep way--tell you something about the world of Hobbes, the world of Locke, the world of Rosseau, and what each of those particular worlds means for ...

Hobbes has been called ... but a supreme and unlimited power. You might join John Locke in wondering whether this sort of thing is a good idea, even a rational course of action, for the fearful ...

Where Dahl drew on Aristotle’s theories, Scarry draws from the 17th century political philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, to show that nuclear weapons and democracy are contradictory. What ...

It is part metaphor, part myth and part history. Thomas Hobbes thought life there was nasty, brutish and short. John Locke disagreed, proclaiming that it was where people first learnt how to own ...