PHIL 100 Week Nine Assignment
This assignment is due on Friday, November 4
th
, at 11:59 pm. Please submit it via canvas. This assignment is based on the following readings:
Thomas Hobbes, “Human Nature is Competitive”
Jean- Paul Sartre, “There is no Human Nature”
Part A Indicate true or false for each statement. Each question is worth 1 point.
1.
According to Hobbes, there can be justice but not injustice in the state of nature.
2.
Hobbes claims that we are required to keep our covenants, even when there is no common power to enforce them.
3.
According to Hobbes, before the social contract, the state of nature already includes rational people.
4.
According to Hobbes, the social contract is between each individual and the sovereign. 5.
In Sartre’s view, when one chooses how to live one is choosing only for oneself. 6.
Sartre claims that if existence precedes essence, then there is such thing as human nature. Part B In no more than one page, double spaced, answer the following question (Worth four points). Explain what Sartre means by “existence precedes essence” and why this claim entails that there is no human nature.
