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Augustine and Aquinas 151 St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) During the Middle Ages there existed a movement which brought the diffe ...
152 Political Theory: The Relationship of Man and the State government must insure some minimal level of subsistence for its peo ...
Augustine and Aquinas 153 If violence within a state is vigorously condemned, what then does Aquinas think about international v ...
154 Political Theory: The Relationship of Man and the State societies. It should be consistent with natural and divine law in th ...
Augustine and Aquinas 155 never on the basis of personal, particular, or emotional premises. Men and states have the right to se ...
CHAPTER 17 Machiavelli and Hobbes: The Prince and the Leviathan Niccold Machiavelli (1469-1527) Machiavelli was bom in Florence, ...
Machiavelli and Hobbes 157 thinker to distinguish the facts of realpolitic from idealistic conjecture. His Prince is a handbook ...
158 Political Theory: The Relationship of Man and the State premises which Machiavelli postulates which make such a prince neces ...
Machiavelli and Hobbes 159 thereby pacify, a people. Religion is the most important means to achieve this goal. Therefore Machia ...
160 Political Theory: The Relationship of Man and the State also seems to be a condition which requires constant reaffirma tion ...
Machiavelli and Hobbes 161 a prolific writer and translator, but his major work, Leviathan, or the Matter, Form and Power o f a ...
diffidence, brings men into competition with one another. The competition, in the state of nature becomes the basis for the anar ...
Machiavelli and Hobbes 163 ity of the sovereign is to protect their lives. The contract is made by the people for their mutual s ...
164 Political Theory: The Relationship of Man and the State what he may do to them if they do not submit. The only major differe ...
CHAPTER 18 Locke and Rousseau: The Social Contractors John Locke (1632-1704) John Locke was bom in Wrington, England in 1632, in ...
Unlike Hobbes, Locke rejected absolutism, and his First Treatise was an attack on Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha, a defense of the t ...
Locke and Rousseau 167 for its justification, but for its continued existence. The most obvious responsibility of the the state ...
The second branch of government is the executive branch, which carries out the laws passed by the legislature. The execu tive b ...
Locke and Rousseau 169 religion, his own, to stabilize and unify the commonwealth. Locke calls for religious freedom and tolerat ...
He ran away from this situation when he was sixteen, met and was befriended by Mme. de Warrens and, as a means of main taining ...
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