Private Arms Possession And Community

Abstract: The debate over the right to bear arms and the need in American society to control guns and violence has reached an apogee since the incident at Littleton, Colorado, High School. The view of Thomas Hobbes, in Leviathan, shows a world where man will fight to the death all those not himself. In order to protect and defend life, man must come together in a new definition of 'self'. To organize into community is to distribute power and to make a commitment to a stated set of rules. This 10 page paper argues that Hobbes' philosophy can be aligned against that of Kant, who set the value of man within their schema of society. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

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Catagory: Philosophy Of Religion, God'S Existence & Freewill

Subcatagory: Philosophy

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