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Essay / Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau - 2091
What is common in Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau is the state of nature. In the state of nature, all men are equal – although they have different talents, they are equal, because having different talents does not prevent equality – and have the same rights, but over time, they try to boss each other around and impose themselves. Hobbes associates this desire with the effort to dispel the insecurity caused by equality among men. According to him, if two people want the same thing that they cannot possess at the same time, they turn against each other. – we can affirm that this hostility is generated by equality. Mainly with the aim of protecting their entity, sometimes only for profit, they try to destroy or dominate themselves. To protect himself, a person believes it is necessary to increase his dominance over others. As a result, a war between peoples breaks out. He says that “As long as there is no State, there will always be war between people.” The duty of the State is the security of individuals. It assigns a state that would limit the freedom to establish security and limit people to prevent them from harming others. “And therefore as long as a man is in the condition of mere nature, which is a condition of war, private appetite is the measure. of good and evil: and therefore all men are agreed on this point, that peace is good, and therefore also the way or means of peace, which (as I have shown before) are the justice, gratitude, modesty, fairness, mercy and the rest. laws of nature, are good; that is to say, the moral virtues; and their opposite vices, evil. » As the basis of the law of nature, he states that “Do not act as if you do not want what is done to you. » Rousseau associates the desire for domination with “the faculty of self-improvement”. ". We always want to be superior to others and this causes inequalities between people. Thus, the state is necessary to satisfy people's basic needs and provide them with opportunities. When it comes to Locke, reason is the right, which everyone has, to punish the one who has violated his own right. This right leads people to hurt each other and enter into conflict. Thus appears the state of war. To avoid war, people build the state. The duty of the state is - like Hobbes' ideas - to protect the lives and property of individuals. Spontaneous moral laws The root of moral laws is inherent...... middle of paper ...... everyone should make their decision by their own, otherwise it will be a diktat. Even if I predict with certainty someone's goodness, for example I could know that they did not do it and that it would affect them, this would not be enough to direct their actions and their life. I admit that not everyone can do their best. choice for themselves. But it is also an important part of human life. And at the same time, I admit that everyone has the right to form their actions and freely determine their life, even if it is not good for them. Otherwise, it would amount to denying that everyone has the capacity to realize themselves with their decisions, notions, ideas, actions. This would mean recognizing that certain groups of people are superior to others because of their talents. This aspect easily gives rise to the clarification of people according to their faculties or according to something else. This results in giving superiors more extensive rights than others. This prevents equality between people. The series of laws thus constituted, inheriting what is good or bad, what is good or bad, can only be described as a diktat and not as morality. Because morality can only develop under conditions of freedom.