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Books on: hobbes social contract

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Journal Articles on: hobbes social contract

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Magazine Articles on: hobbes social contract

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Newspaper Articles on: hobbes social contract

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    Philosophical Musings of a Dog Mess Hater
    Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), October 17, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...that is where Messrs Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau...Rousseau called a "social contract". Hobbes warned that without...we will always need a social contract to make it work. In...words of wisdom from Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and...
     
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    A Life beyond Strife
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 16, 2008
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Somalia exemplifies Hobbes dire warnings about life...type terrorist attacks? Hobbes argued that men in a...agreement that he called a social contract by which they establish...their own protection. Hobbes rejected the idea of...
     
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    Cathy Jamieson Star of the REAL Great Escape
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 20, 2004
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...pounds sterling11million contract to run security services...responsibility for the contract with Reliance. She signed...rollout of Reliances contract - worth pounds sterling126million...the sword. As Thomas Hobbes defined it in his Leviathan...an art therapist, a social worker, an intermediate...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: hobbes social contract

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    Social Contract
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    SOCIAL CONTRACT agreement or covenant by which men...the English philosophers Thomas Hobbes (in the Leviathan, 1651) and...of the individual by the group. Hobbes maintained that by the social contract men had surrendered their...
     
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    Hobbes, Thomas
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the Cavendish family, Hobbes took great interest in...In the Leviathan, Hobbes developed his political...ecclesiastical power. Though Hobbes favored a monarchy as...different theories of the social contract. See biographies by...
     
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    Sovereignty
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...sovereign, has the power to declare law. Thomas Hobbes later furthered the concept of kingly sovereignty...sovereign both absolute moral and political power. Hobbes, like other social-contract theorists, asserted that the king derives his...
     
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    Spinoza, Baruch
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...premise similar to that of Hobbes that men call "good" whatever...Politically, Spinoza and Hobbes again share assumptions about the social contract: Right derives from power...ends of the system: for Hobbes advantage lies in satisfying...
     
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    Constitution , Principles of Government
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...or any areas in which parliamentary legislation is expressly forbidden. The theory of the social contract, developed in the 17th cent. by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke , was fundamental to the development of the modern constitution. The Constitution...
     

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