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25. Mai 2024 · individualism, political and social philosophy that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual. Although the concept of an individual may seem straightforward, there are many ways of understanding it, both in theory and in practice. The term individualism itself, and its equivalents in other languages, dates—like socialism and other isms ...
Vor einem Tag · Hobbes also developed some of the fundamentals of European liberal thought: the right of the individual, the natural equality of all men, the artificial character of the political order (which led to the later distinction between civil society and the state), the view that all legitimate political power must be "representative" and based on the consent of the people, and a liberal ...
14. Mai 2024 · No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutis...
Vor 5 Tagen · 30 In his Preface to ‘Gondibert’, Hobbes’s friend Davenant treats Spenser’s allegorical approach in The Faerie Queene as something of an embarrassment: ‘His allegoricall Story (by many held defective in the connexion) resembling (me thinks) a continuance of extraordinary Dreames; such as excellent Poets, and Painters, by being overstudious may have in the beginning of Feavers ...
16. Mai 2024 · classical liberalism, an early form of liberalism, the political-philosophical doctrine which holds that the central problem of politics is the protection of individual freedom or liberty. The term classical liberalism may also refer to actual political systems that instantiate classical-liberal principles. Both classical liberalism, which was ...
26. Mai 2024 · Hobbes expressed his views in "Leviathan" (1660): "Man's life was solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." Hobbes inferred that people are naturally selfish and evil. Cannot be trusted. Therefore, the primitive or "natural" state of mankind is violent and cruel. Therefore, powerful autocratic governments (monarchies) must control them.
24. Mai 2024 · State, political organization of society, or the body politic, or, more narrowly, the institutions of government. It is a form of human association distinguished from other social groups by its purpose, the creation of order and security; its methods, the laws and their enforcement; its territory; and its sovereignty.
