Leaders in Political Philosophy

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This paper looks at some of the better known contributors to political philosophy. The author looks at the personality behind each contributor and centers on what each one contributed to political philosophy. The paper looks at how each personality has helped form the ideas and attitudes that are so prominent in today's study of political philosophy. The paper concludes with a general summation of the importance of these contributors. Introduction Forward Synopsis

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"Locke's view raised the question of the extent to which ideas are like the objects that cause them. His answer was that only some qualities of objects are like ideas. He held that primary qualities of objects, or the mathematically determinable qualities of an object, such as shape, motion, weight, and number, exist in the world, and that ideas copy them. Secondary qualities, those, which arise from the senses, do not exist in objects as they exist in ideas."

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