HOW LONG SHOULD IT BE?
Your answer must be between six and seven double-spaced pages, in font size 12
WHAT IS THE ASSIGNMENT?
Answer ONE of the following questions — and remember to write down the question which you are answering in your assignment:
- How do the arguments given in More's Utopia for thinking that private property undermines or threatens virtue compare with what Hobbes says about human nature?
- What, in Machiavelli's view, are the most important features of a free state if it is to succeed in securing and preserving liberty for its citizens?
- Noel Malcolm points out in his exposition of Hobbes's political views of the state ("On Hobbes and Spinoza", p. 56) that Hobbes's theory requires people's innocence not only rights of action but also rights of judgment, only the sovereign can judge what will be necessary for peace in the State. But what leads Hobbes to this conclusion?
- Either: a) How does Locke's defense of revolution demonstrate his disagreement with Hobbes's account of the state of nature?Or:b) How does Locke's and Rousseau's shared concern about our liberty in the state of nature lead them to generate such different accounts of the social contract?
- Either: a) How does Rousseau's Discourse on Inequalityundermine Enlightenment beliefs about progress?Or: b) How does Rousseau's reworking of the idea of the social contract alter his account of civil liberty?
N.B. Remember to paginate your work, use Chicago style for footnotes and bibliography, and put the question and your name on it. Good luck!