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 Essay Grade: 78%
Some Theories on Human Nature
1,807 words, approx. 6 pages
 Are people as a whole naturally evil, as Thomas Hobbes argued, or instinctively good-natured, as John Locke contended? Our governments are created based on our human nature.
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 Essay Grade: 83%
John Locke
1,673 words, approx. 6 pages
 What many people don't know is that our forefathers had a forefather - a man whose political theories and writings inspired and guided the American revolutionaries, from concept to constitution. His name was John Locke.
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 Essay Grade: 92%
Second Treatise of Goverment: Equality in Nature Versus Inequality of Wealth
1,209 words, approx. 4 pages
 How was John Locke able in his Second Treatise of Government to reconcile the idea that all men are by nature created equal with the idea that inequalities of wealth are natural and inevitable? As it turns out, the two ideas are actually very logical and harmonious, as the inequalities of wealth are the end result of the natural state in which individuals were first born.
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John Locke on the Nature of Freedom
713 words, approx. 2 pages
 In "Two Treaties of Government," John Locke wrote that societies that are not self-governing inevitable surpress their citizens' freedoms. These writings are the philosophical basis for the French and American Revolutions.
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 Essay Grade: 75%
Locke Vs Hobbes
627 words, approx. 2 pages
 Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were philosophers from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The two men both had very strong views on freedom and how a country should be governed. Their viewpoints are famous for contrasting one another. Hobbes has more of a pessimistic view on freedom while Locke's opinions are more optimistic.
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 Essay Grade: 86%
The Contrasting Philosophies of Hobes and Lockes
615 words, approx. 2 pages
 Contrasts the philosophies and views of social scientists John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. Describes how Hobbes states that we are born devilish and nasty, while Locke sees humans as innocent and blank minded.
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Locke and Hobbes's Philosophies of Government
351 words, approx. 1 pages
 Out of the Enlightenment, two philosophies of government arose: John Locke's view of equal rights and democratic rules and Thomas Hobbes view that totalitarian governments were the best way to run societies.
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 Essay Grade: 87%
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