Dennis Rader, most commonly known as the BTK killer, lived an intensely normal and ordinary life. Little did everyone know that his life was much more than him being a Boy Scout leader, a compliance officer, and a church leader (Davey). Rader was born in Pittsburg, KS on March 9th, 1945. He’s the oldest of four sons, and seemed to enjoy a pretty normal childhood. As a child, Rader did activities that most children at that age would never do.
Thomas Hobbes He would like to study different types of governments. He thought that a monarchy government was better than democracy because he believed that they were naturally wicked and could not be trusted to govern. He believed that it was better to have a leader like a king that would knew how to be a leader and command a country. He would say that government were for the selfish people who were trying to hide their bad decisions.
One his theories, stated in his book called Leviathan said that people are not able rule themselves because of how selfish mankind is and they need to be ruled by an iron fist. His political theory was that was also stated in Leviathan was that we should respect government authority under all circumstances to avoid violence. Hobbes was scared of the outcome of the social contract which meant people could get rid of the government if they were unhappy with what they were getting. In order to make well with the social contract he states in Leviathan that people should be completely obedient to the government. His reasoning was that if there was no government, there would be chaos.
The Enlightenment: Hobbes vs. Locke Two famous philosophers, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, have contributed to modern political science by expressing their views on human nature and the general laws that man had to follow. Both of their views differed in terms of how man should live his life. These views will be shown by comparing both philosophers’ opinions on the nature of man, and the various laws that constituted. Man was naturally evil, selfish, and living in a state of war, according to Hobbes. He believed that “humans were created “bad” by their creator”, and were “condemned to live in a world where bad things happen” (The Enlightenment, 1650-1789, p. 6).
Enlightenment? This was a system that would help people be more organized and also helped the government. Here are three of many people that i have chosen to write about on how they helped with the enlightenment. One, Thomas Hobbes who was a philosopher and political theorist whose book the Leviathan ended up being kicked off the enlightenment in England. Two, John Locke, he was an English political theorist who focused on the structure of government.
Hobbes (1660) stated, “…every man is enemy to every man” (p.1909). He truly believed that the government had to rule completely and that the people had no say in the actions taken by the government. According to Cohen (2011), Hobbes believed that “The Hobbesian natural laws command our submission to a sovereign power” (p.462). On the contrary, Locke believed in Democracy,
Further, Locke stated that if the government failed to protect these rights, people had the right to overthrow them. Another important philosopher was Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes believed people are selfish. Because of this, he believed in a social contract of sorts. He believed people needed to obey the ruler in exchange for a peaceful
John Locke, a political thinker of the 1650s, once stated that “All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.” This statement speaks volumes, as it adequately describes the views of John Locke. Another political thinker, Thomas Hobbes, had a significantly different viewpoint on how the government should be run. After comparing the drastically different views between these men, it is clear that only one of their ideas could best form a society and base a government on: John Locke. Though both prove good points, Hobbes’ views would only work in a near perfect world.
Thomas Hobbes was enlightenment philosopher who lived from 1585 to 1679. In his first book, “Leviathan” he explained that all people were too selfish to be able to govern themselves and an absolute monarchy would be needed. He thought that absolute monarch was needed in order to keep everyone in check. John Locke was also an enlightenment philosopher but who had completely opposite views from Thomas Hobbes. He believed that all people were born with natural rights.
Lucas Lippman Adam Klempa F-Block September 14, 2015 John Locke and Thomas Hobbes where both highlights of the Enlightenment, which was when analysis, reason and individualism was used instead of traditional lines of authority. Locke and Hobbes were born in the same era, but were very different thinkers. Hobbes thought that an absolute monarch was good , while Locke thought that all humans should be free and have natural rights. Though Locke's ideas were good, Thomas Hobbes had the most effective (effective meaning getting things done) method of the social contract ("an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits"(Wikipedia)) as it got things done, it made people act just, and it made the people safer.
John Locke and Thomas Hobbes were philosophers with opposing views of mankind, which greatly influenced their ideals and actions. Thomas Hobbes, who witnessed the English civil war, had a negative viewpoint on the nature of human beings. He saw citizens as selfish and wicked and that the only right form of government would be an absolute monarchy. Hobbes coined the term “social contract,” which meant the people are born with rights in which they exchange for protection under an absolute ruler. Hobbes’ ideal form of government was a “monarchy, [because] his main concern was to argue that effective government—whatever its form—must have absolute authority.
Besides philosophy, Hobbes also worked in the fields of history, physics, theology, ethics and political theory. His idea is that the nature of human beings contributes to the cooperation of other members of the community due to its own interests, becoming one of the most important theoretical theories of philosophical anthropology. Hobbes is one of the founding philosophers of materialism. The views of Thomas Hobby are considered as the foundation of realism. In his "Levyatan", philosophy by means of a deduction, Hobbs is trying to explain the nature of the political reality.
Hobbes was an English philosopher, known through out the world as the author of “Leviathan” which is regarded as one of the earliest examples of the social contract theory. His writings were greatly influenced by the
In Thomas Hobbes’s words, the life of man is, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” He does not hold a high opinion of man’s ability to enjoy life or at least go through it with endurance and perseverance. On the other hand, John Locke had more confidence in human nature. He believed that morality could be approached rather like numbers: obviously and easily. Everyone would know what good meant, just as everyone would know what five or ten meant.
The modern state Christopher Pierson focuses on a normative illustration of the modern state – how it should be. The following discussion tries to summarize the essence of three features. (Monopoly) control of the means of violence Thomas Hobbes came up with his idea of the ‘Common Power’ – the Great Leviathan – owning all the means of violence and ruling over the people. Engels talks about power as ‘arisen out of society but placing itself above it’, meaning that the people give all their power to a higher institution and accepting its rule over them. Weber, in his attempt to define the state, mentions ‘monopoly…of physical force’ claimed by a human community.
