Hobbes and Locke were responding even more directly to the political strife and violence close to home, specifically the English civil wars of the mid-17th century, during which a king was ...

John Locke (1632–1704) concerned himself primarily with society, where his views are often contrasted with those of Thomas Hobbes, and with epistemology, where he is usually placed alongside ...

A new American Revolution is going on in the Supreme Court. In recent years, it has issued four major decisions curtailing ...

And as Hobbes observed, and the Post confirms, the state of nature is a brutal place: Keith Green, 37, said he's heard too many scary stories to slip into a spot someone has blocked off.

Locke, Leibniz, Hume and Hegel all took Hobbes seriously. Hegel wrote of De Cive and Leviathan : “Both works contain sounder reflections on the nature of society and government than many now in ...

Given ancient traditions, and contemporary resentments of America’s global ascendancy, it is fanciful to think that the priest who lives here, hard by Lake Michigan, might one day be summoned… ...

The Founders were scholars of both Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Hobbes argued that the state of nature — primitive society — revolved around a war of “every man against every man.” ...

Hobbes judged that an absolute state was required in order to keep religious, sectarian violence in check. And Locke championed tolerance that would counter the intolerance he found in all religion.