... relations and unproductive elites. Due to man's placement to fulfil a somewhat divine teleology, knowledge of this condition is vital as it lays the groundwork for the formation of a universal social morality. Locke's fundamental argument is that people are equal and invested with natural rights in a state of nature which they live free from outside rule. In the state of nature, natural ... law governs behaviour, with each person having license to execute that law against someone who wrongs them by infringing on their rights. He views natural equality as a somewhat shared position in th...

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NOTES FROM THEORY PACKET KARL MARX • studied law, philosophy, and history • lifelong collaboration w/ Friedrich Engels. • develop a communist ideology. • 1848 produced Communist Manifesto: urging workers to rise and take over the means of production for the ... workers everywhere in a revolutionary struggle. • Suggested a new way of looking at social life and history: he saw material and economic conditions as a responsible for the shaping of our values, morality, attitudes, and political institutions. • Singled out property relations to the key element and the exploitation of "h...

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... Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes have theories on how the state of nature was before civilization emerged. They are theories that investigate the creation of social hierarchy, differing primarily on the morality of "natural" man; while Rousseau considers the primitive man amoral, Hobbes described him as innately greedy and evil. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes both believed that a society ... "the origin of society and of laws, which gave new fetters to the weak man and new forces to the rich man, irreversibly destroyed natural freedom, forever established the law of property and of i...

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