![]() ![]() ![]() For Hobbes, submission to government authority is the only reliable way of securing peace among people that would otherwise naturally incline toward a condition of civil war. Hobbes’s account of how civil society and government authority emerge from a state of natural freedom and equality (“the state of nature”) is a historically early attempt to justify the role of government in regulating the life of a political community. Following that, the module takes up the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, as expressed in his treatise Leviathan (1651). This module starts with a word of welcome and some orientation information for your engagement with the course as a whole. Module 10: Oppression and historical injustice.Module 7: Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974).Module 6: John Rawls's Justice as Fairness.Module 4: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859).Module 3: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762). ![]() ![]() Module 2: John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689).Module 1: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651).Essay Assignment, Midterm Exam, and Final Examination Guidelines. ![]()
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