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Aim: How can we understand the role that human nature plays in forming theories of government?. Do Now : Read Documents 1-A and 1-B, selections from Hobbes' Leviathan and Lockes’ Of Civil Government. Underline any vocabulary words you are not familiar with or do not understand.
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Aim: How can we understand the role that human nature plays informing theories of government? Do Now: • Read Documents 1-A and 1-B, selections from Hobbes' Leviathanand Lockes’ Of Civil Government. • Underline any vocabulary words you are not familiar with or do not understand. Aim: How can we understand the role that human nature plays in forming theories of government?
QUESTIONS • Why would the basic nature of humans be a topic of discussion? (As an attempt to understand the basic laws which govern human interaction in society.) • Why would this be important for developing a concept for an ideal form of government? (The idea would be successful or not, depending upon whether it fitted the basic nature of human beings.) • How would these writers have come up with their point of view? (Through the scientific method of observation of particulars, generalization, prediction for future.) Aim: How can we understand the role that human nature plays in forming theories of government?
QUESTIONS • How could Locke and Hobbes have come to such different conclusions? (One idea: they had experienced extremely different political situations in their lives; for Hobbes the English Civil War, the beheading of a monarch; for Locke the Glorious Revolution, with no bloodshed.) Aim: How can we understand the role that human nature plays in forming theories of government?
LEVIATHAN Aim: How can we understand the role that human nature plays in forming theories of government?