Our declaration of revolt against kings and intrusive parliaments was possible because of the theoretical framework provided ...

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

I’m watching, fascinated. I’m thinking, “We are back to Hobbes’ and Locke’s state of nature.” Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were 17th century English political philosophers who wrote about the origins ...

In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes set forth the argument that when “men live without other security than what their own strength ...

The Leaving Cert politics & society exam gave students who are up to date with current affairs and went “above and beyond” in ...

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

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 ...

Investopedia / Julie Bang Early Life and Education Locke was born in England on Aug. 29, 1632. His father John, an attorney, and mother Agnes baptized him the morning of his birth and raised him ...

It is his contention that, with the phrase la verità effettuale della cosa, Machiavelli really did effect a revolution—that he laid the foundation both for modern science, with its single-minded focus ...

Hobbes was no liberal. Although twentieth-century political philosophers often recognized Hobbes, along with John Locke a generation later, as one of the founding fathers of liberalism, this ...