... political philosophy is not based on natural law at all, but instead on natural rights, like the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. This is probably the greatest controversy in Locke interpretation today. Natural law theories hold that human beings are subject to a moral law. Morality is fundamentally about duty, the duty ... each individual has to abide by the natural law. Thomas Hobbes created a new approach when he based morality not on duty but on right, each individual ... 's right to preserve himself, to pursue his own good-essentially, to do as he wishes. Is Locke a follower of Hobbes, ...

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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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