John locke v thomas hobbes
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'Hobbes vs. Locke': The battle continues
PROPERTY RIGHTS FORM the foundation of our political system; without them we have no freedom. Thus it is disturbing to see these rights eroded both in our courts and through bureaucratic action. The central role of property rights in our system of government must be reinforced.
The importance of personal property has been recognized by both friend and foe. James Madison, who has been called "the father of the U.S. Constitution," set forth government's duty concerning property as follows: "Government is instituted to protect property of every sort. ... This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own." In "The Communist Manifesto," Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels reduced their political beliefs to one central point. "The theory of the Communists," they wrote, "may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property."
While the conflict between communist and democratic states has had a monumental effect on the history of the last century, the current clash over the role of property rights in the United States and Michigan is less a vestige of those conflicts than of the philosophical battle between Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.
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Hobbes, Locke, and the Social Contract
The 17th century was among the most chaotic and destructive the continent of Europe had ever witnessed in the modern era. From 1618-1648, much of Central Europe was caught in the throes of the Thirty Years War, the violent breakup of the Holy Roman Empire. The conflict marked by religious violence between Catholics and Protestants, shameless dynastic maneuvering, famine, disease, and other unimaginable atrocities, still ranks among one of the largest disasters to affect Europe to this day. England and Scotland also became engulfed in a civil conflict in this period between royalist supporters of the Stuart Dynasty and supporters of Parliamentary rights that had religious dimensions as well. Though the war only lasted approximately ten years, the instability it caused in the form of continuing guerilla warfare, famine, revolution, and intermittent rebellion lasted for the next few decades. These decades of suffering and instability produced by these wars raised many questions about human nature, civil society, and most importantly, how to structure government to effectively prevent further breakdowns in public order. This had the side effect of producing two of th