In the most basic sense, the social contract is the unspoken agreement between citizen and state: individuals agree to ...

The theory of social contracts was developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Hobbes envisaged the central ...

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 ...

The Denver Broncos have selected safety P.J. Locke for the Ed Block Courage Award this year, the team announced. Locke was chosen by his Broncos teammates for his dedication to his rehab process ...

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If families were truly miniature states, as suggested by Bodin and Hobbes, the power of the parent would not be temporary in this manner. John Locke, contra Hobbes, recognized that state and paternal ...

Locke is credited with bringing a scientist ... views of other prominent philosophers of the time, most notably Thomas Hobbes. He took that view even further, though, developing a labor theory ...

In Mansfield’s opinion, it was Machiavelli’s shocking critique of the Aristotelian and the Christian teachings concerning moral virtue that inspired the profound reorientation of learning and of ...

Hobbes was no liberal. Although twentieth-century political philosophers often recognized Hobbes, along with John Locke a generation later, as one of the founding fathers of liberalism, this ...

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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 ...