... have a eruptive impact society's subconscious. The philosophical values that carried notions of natural human rights and power were unexplained by the counterrevolutionary outcomes. The American Revolution today can be summarized as the uprising of American patriots against the British rule's unfair taxation to the colonies. The middle-class merchants and farmers resisted paying their taxes, while the poor rioted against ... unemployment during the frequent downturns of the business cycle, which brought into question many of the conditions that they endured. Prevalent ideologies were born...

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... . So, we can notice that both of them were products of their time, Hobbes was a child of the civil wars while Locke was that of Glorious revolution. Their works are based on their perception of life during their own time. They agreed on their views on the Social Contract, where they stated that the ... and pain principle which are closely associated with the ideas of preservation, welfare and well being of the people which is actually against the whole idea of revolution. He never gave a philosophical justification to his theories probably because he was unsure of them himself. Thus, we...

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... noble conception of Liberty. It was this more exalted, more inclusive vision of Liberty which would be invoked so many centuries later by a bold group of men willing to justify revolution by an appeal to the self-evident truth that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable right to Liberty. The idea of liberty received ... against arbitrary and capricious Contemporary conceptions of liberty, Carey argues, illustrate the full implication of Popper's notion of an open society, and are revealed in the relativism that characterizes contemporary American not...

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... government would provide checks and balances and conflict without violence. These checks and balances would insure that no one group could gain a monopoly of violence to repress or overthrow in revolution. His pragmatic approach allowed for the freedoms that were taken away in Plato's ideal state. His concept of representative government would of course play out over history to include the ... , we are ruled by an authoritarian because we consent to, and in return they protect our individual freedoms. However, these freedoms are not absolute. Locke is more in line with American thinking ...

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