1. Locke and Hobbes
These are all qualities used to quantify a person's place in society. For many people, to gain power throughout the course of a person's life, it is a sign of advancement in life, either through individual talent or through other methods. ... So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire for power after power, that ceaseth only in death. ... First, competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory." ... (Hobbes, Leviathan 122) Hobbes believes that there are two types of people who live in a Law of Nature (Hobbes, Levi...
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