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Essay 8-10 paragraphs
Use your textbook to help you respond to the topic, and when you quote and summarize from the course texts, include information about the page reference. If you do choose to use an outside source, be sure to cite your source, just as you do when you use the course texts. If you use a quotation or an example from a website, cite the website's URL and the date accessed.
Textbook: Philosophy Here and now:powerful ideas in everyday life. Author: Lewis Vaughn, ISBN: 9780197543413
Explain Locke’s view of human nature. Use details from the textbook to support your description. Explain. Using Vaughn’s Ch. 8 and the excerpts from Locke reprinted there, explain Locke’s view of human nature. Use details from the textbook to support your description of his view. Next, explain Hobbes’s view of human nature, again using details from the textbook to support your description of Hobbes’s view. How does Locke's view of human nature differ from Hobbes' view? Which thinker’s argument do you find more convincing? Explain fully, and defend your answer.