Did Rousseau undermine Hobbes’ views on absolute rule? Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher who wrote at a time of great civil unrest and turbulence in his own country, his major works were written in exile in France during the English Civil War. Hobbes described the “state of nature” in his Tetralogy of BooksContinue reading “What was Rousseau and Hobbes’ view of the ‘state of nature’?”
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When is liberty worth fighting a revolution for?
When is liberty worth fighting a revolution for? In this essay, I will argue that there are only a few occasions when liberty is worth fighting a revolution for, and I will illustrate this by discussing the ideas and works of English philosophers Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and John Locke (1632 – 1704). Both philosophers were aliveContinue reading “When is liberty worth fighting a revolution for?”
When is liberty worth fighting a revolution for?
Should individual rights take precedence over the collective good? What were the views of English philosophers Hobbes and Locke?
What was Rousseau and Hobbes’ view of the ‘state of nature’?
Did Rousseau undermine Hobbes’ views on absolute rule? Hobbes famously surmised that in the state of nature – life was ‘nasty, brutish, and short’, but was he right?
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