Political Philosophy

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• In Thomas Hobbes's political philosophy, what most accurately characterizes the state of nature?
• According to John Locke, what is the primary purpose of legitimate government?
• What does Rousseau mean by the “general will”?
• What is John Stuart Mill's harm principle?
• What is the purpose of John Rawls's veil of ignorance?
• What does Robert Nozick's entitlement theory primarily defend?
• Machiavelli argues that a successful ruler may sometimes need to act contrary to conventional morality in order to…
• Karl Marx's political philosophy treats the modern state as fully neutral in conflicts between social classes.