Hobbes Lord Of The Flies Research Paper

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After crash landing on an uncharted island with the boys from Lord of the Flies and struggling to create order, having completed extensive research on the various forms of government and the philosophies of some of the greatest thinkers will be beneficial in creating the perfect system. An ideal government that would work best for the boys can be established to help with any conflicts that may emerge. The ideal form of government that would best fit on the island with the boys would be a combination of an oligarchy and a direct democracy together. An oligarchy is defined as a small group of people having control and in charge. They would meet every so often to decide important questions and to appoint somebody to deal with things while the …show more content…

According to “Biographical Briefing on Hobbes”, Hobbes argued that people are naturally wicked, selfish, and can’t be trusted to govern or make their own decisions because they would act in their own selfish interests if left alone. He believed that all people are equal and that this equality leads to competition and violence. According to Hobbes, governments were created to protect people from their own selfishness and evil. Therefore, he believed in absolute monarchy so that an authority can provide direction and leadership to the country. Hobbes believed that a democracy where citizens are allowed to vote for their leaders would never work (“Biographical Briefing on Hobbes”). As stated in “Biographical Briefing on Aristotle”, Aristotle described the three positive forms of government as monarchy, aristocracy, and constitutional rule. Although he believed that democracy is the least dangerous form of government, people might think they are equal in every way and fail to recognize their different strengths and weaknesses; this would lead to harming the society (“Biographical Briefing on Aristotle”). According to the article “On Oligarchy: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics”, he considered monarchy to be the true form of government and recognized that oligarchy was based not only on numbers and wealth, but on an underlying political ideology with a unique understanding of justice, worth, and merit (“Notre Dame Philosophical

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