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Your search for: thomas AND hobbes AND social AND contract


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Books on: thomas hobbes social contract

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Journal Articles on: thomas hobbes social contract

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Magazine Articles on: thomas hobbes social contract

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Newspaper Articles on: thomas 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

    ...turned for solace and guidance to Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques...less. And that is where Messrs Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau come in...for what Rousseau called a "social contract". Hobbes warned that without such a contract...
     
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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

    ...THE WASHINGTON TIMES Thomas Hobbes is a famous British political...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

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

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Encyclopedia Articles on: thomas hobbes social contract

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

    HOBBES, THOMAS hobz, 1588 1679, English...in the Cavendish family, Hobbes took great interest in mathematics...ecclesiastical power. Though Hobbes favored a monarchy as the...different theories of the social contract. See biographies by J...
     
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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...the English philosophers Thomas Hobbes (in the Leviathan, 1651...Hobbes maintained that by the social contract men had surrendered...revolutions in the 18th cent. Thomas Jefferson held that the...
     
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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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    Sovereignty
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the 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

    ...works of Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, and other writers of the...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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