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Jefferson

Thomas Hobbes

Life in a state of nature was a “war of all against all” in which each person tries to take that belonging to the other. Thus the life of the individual is “nasty, brutish, and short.” People thus surrender their sovereignty to a king in return for security.

John Locke

Madame de Stael

Johan Herder 1744-1803

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

Hegel

Artur Schopenhauer 1788-1860

Houston Stewart Chamberlin

“The Crisis of German Ideology” The University of Wisconsin “The Crisis of German Ideology”