Political Theory Hobbes Aristotle
Date Submitted: 11/18/2004 20:14:52
Category: / Social Sciences / Politics
Length: 14 pages (3830 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Politics
Length: 14 pages (3830 words)
This essay presents an examination of the relationship that existed between thought and action at the origin of the political as represented within the text of Aristotle's Politics and the evolution of this relationship as seen in the modern period in the writing of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan. By comparing and contrasting the tenets of the practices and perceptions of the respective periods of the authors a conclusion will be made as to the present implications …
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…s, by arguing that human beings are mechanical verses teleological entities have established that good and bad is dependant upon subjective preferences of valuing agents rather than on objective notion of the common Good. In doing so Hobbes, one of many, has replaced Aristotle's perception of the final cause and ideal perfectionism. In certain aspects this modern notion has robbed humanity of any higher aims beyond the blatant materialistic accumulation as is prevalent today.
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