• The Civil State In John Locke’s Political Philosophy: Its Relevance To Nigerian Democracy

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    • A RESEARCH ON THE THE CIVIL STATE IN JOHN LOCKE’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: ITS RELEVANCE TO NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY
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    • CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 4 ]For Hobbes the sovereign is not a party to the contract, he only accepts his power from the contractors and he is absolutely free to act in any way he sees fit, subject only to the primary law of nature that he preserves himself.Rousseau, another philosopher of modern period, viewed that in the civil state each person gives up his natural liberty in order to gain civil liberty in common with others under the supreme direction of the general will. Rousseau’s own view of the c ... Continue reading---