do you think we are we still following the ideas of political philosophers?

Question

such as, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Montesquieu

please explain why or why not.

Answer 1

Once their seminole arguments have been made, mankind has no choice but to come under the shadow of that influence. Even to unhinge from the ones you mention requires that other great political philosophers wield a more recent imact.

My use of the word "choice" is intentionally joking about the condition we have. There is no choice to follow or not to follow. Whether he knows it or not, man is following the influence of philosophers in all areas and across all strata of life.

Locke reigns supreme. His ideas have rippled throughout the world and forced change, mostly for the good.

Rouseau, however, still manages to captivate and compete against the Lockean. They're the main two, concerning politics "proper."

Nietzsche has had some interesting influence as well. Some blatant, but the most interesting is more subtle.

Answer 2

Good question. This is interrelated to my previous question on what is political philosophy. I would say because time changes the written ideas of the philosophers you mentioned are there but to follow it is somewhat out ot touch. Politics right now have leaped so high that what concerns them is how they convinced their constituents but not necessarily attaining or following those of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes and Montesquieu. These are great pholosophers you mentioned that contributed a lot in politiacal philosophy. This 21st century is a lot of difference as before that's why we are not following the ideas in totto.

Thanks for the question. Good day!

Answer 3

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative and belief is belief. Basically all people have one idea, freedom, but their notions and concepts for how that is experienced are different. There are leaders and there are followers and there are those who would be leading their self in their conception for independent thought. In party politics it is usual to have a constitution which is formed of a philosophy of ethics and right living in each party and that these philosophies have relation to the ideas, plans, rights and procedures expressed in policy. But many of these notions and concepts were not generated in party politic but in religion, e.g. the abortion question, right to life, death penalty, right to ownership for land property, the form and difference in form for democracy, the right to dissent and difference in belief and the right to express those differences and the general object for nationalistic identity or the nation corporation for citizenship, ..... We need be careful not to think of these philosophies as purified anything except pure of self contradiction.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/pr/prconten.htm

Answer 4

Thomas extra, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, J.S. Mill, Karl Marx, Robert Nozick, John Rawls (the final 2 in case you desire to get into modern, twentieth century stuff). All of those paintings. extra's "Utopia", Locke's "2d Treatise on government"; Hobbes' "Leviathan", Mill's "On Liberty", Marx's "Das Kapital", Nozick's "Anarchy, State and Utopia", and Rawl's "A concept of Justice" are reliable supplies for each.

Answer 5

We have veered very far from Locke's Treatise, but our Bill of rights is heavily influenced by his philosophy.