Quotations

 =What Do These Quotations Mean to //You//? = //How do they relate to our Essential Question: "What are the philosophical foundations of our democracy?"//

**1. "[|The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short]"** ([|Thomas Hobbes).] Hobbes wrote this in terms of the way of life without government, without structure would be. He describes this way of living as solitary, poor etc. This quote is a justification for forming a government. We would then be protected from the state of war that he thinks would exist in the state of nature.

As people are making history, growing and discovering the world around them, somebody is right behind them, doing the same- and creating a path of knowledge that they have gained throughout the journey, which, metaphorically creates a path that people have created through discovery. Things may finally change after trying to make history change! The quote is saying that we have created government based on what we want. Because we walked where we wanted, we've created a path.
 * 2. "As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears," (John Locke.**

Essentially, when one's schedule is completely free, the resulting time can be used to explore some of the more intricate concepts of life. One example of this is the utilization of agriculture and shepherding of animals in pre-metropolis societies, and the time the people subsequently received that could then be used to invent or discuss religious, political, cultural, and social aspects of their people and government (or basic structure used to maintain order) out of pleasure or personal preference rather than necessity.
 * 3. "Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy," (John Locke).**

Is this quote talking about Locke's belief that in the state of nature people have equality, no one is above another. Unlike Hobbes who believes that the State of Nature is a state of pure instinct based on fear (survival of the fittest), Locke believes that the State of Nature is a state of equality in which every man has the right to protect himself and his possessions without harming another individual.
 * 4. "Men living together according to reason, without a common superior on earth, with authority to judge between them, is properly the state of nature," (John Locke 15).**

These combined quotes are contrasting the views of these two important historical figures and what they think are the most important rights you can have. These rights are unalienable; under the Declaration of In dependence, we are all entitled to them.
 * 5. "Life, liberty, and property," (John Locke), "life, liberty, and happiness," (Thomas Jefferson).**

This is indirectly referred to in the Declaration of Independence where Locke said that human natural rights are Life, Liberty, and Property. So by saying that I think that it had to do with us being God's property. Did you come to this conclusion because of Locke's thinking about property? He thinks that men have a right to natural resources and that when they take those resources and put their own labor into it then they have a right to keep that product of that effort. It becomes their property. Are you thinking that because God put his effort into creating man that by Locke's reasoning then man is the product of his labor and thus his property? then were does this leave women and everyone else?
 * 6. "God created men and we are, in effect, God's property. The chief end set us by our creator as a species and as individuals is survival. A wise and omnipotent God, having made people and sent them into this world; he has no liberty to destroy himself, or so much as any creature in his possession, yet when some nobler use than its bare possession calls for it," (John Locke).**

This is John Locke's perspective on the state of nature. He believes that the state of nature has morals in comparison to Thomas Hobbes who believes in just staying alive in this war.
 * 7.** **"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which affects everyone: and reason which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions..." (John Locke).**

This quote is saying that making money and having wealth is what we all want and we have the right to try and achieve that. Also he was saying that property isn't owned collectively, it can be owned individually and if you take in land as long as you put your labor and work into the land, it is yours.
 * 8. "In the state of nature profit is the measure of right," (John Locke).**

In this quote, Hobbes describes the lack of justice and organization we would have if we were to live in the State of Nature. We would have to learn to live amongst injustice and inconvenience, seeing as there is no law. If your house was on fire, you would not be able to call the fire department for help. In the State of Nature, we live for ourselves. How we can live going on and on protecting what we want and what we have as an individual, or we can give up some of our liberties to be able to set some rule.
 * 9. "Within the state of nature there is no justice, since there is no law, excepting certain natural precepts, the first of which is 'that every man ought to endeavor peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining it'; and the second is 'that a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himself,'" (Thomas Hobbes).** [|From Wikipedia]