Entry 3

"Philosophies of leadership are determined by beliefs about human nature."
This quote is saying that, based on the people we lead our philosophies of leadership are different, it is more strict, or more more lenient. In another words this quote basically means that, most people would share with people they trust, rather than share with people they don’t trust. But we have been talking about how people are greedy, mean, and fickle, so if you were a leader and you had a group of greedy, mean, and fickle people, you would have to be more strict, because they wouldn’t learn, or get the concept on life living. This theory would just be like a garden. Say if your garden soil wasn’t too great. You would have to take care of the soil, fertilize it, give it water, expose it to the sun, and give it quality. That’s how you would have to act as a leader if your group wasn’t good. Hobbes wouldn’t agree with this. Hobbes would say that there shouldn’t be a leader, and if there was then, the leader will abuse his power because he would be selfish and only looking out for himself.

"The governed have a responsibility for their governance."
This quote is saying that, the governed have a responsibility to elect their government, and they would also have to respect the government. So basically kids should respect their teachers, but they must/should speak up if they have a misunderstanding. If you want a civil and high-quality country the governed should elect on who they want to be the leader of their country, but when they elect their governance they should give him respect because they elected him. This brings me to the example of a building. Every part of a building has a job to keep the building stable, and the jobs are like people in a country. So if people are not holding up there responsibility of the building, and if the leader is lacking on telling people to do their job on keeping the building up. Then the governed has a right to boot the governance off. Yes Hobbes agrees. Hobbes says that, when the governed elects governance the governed must obey there governance because they elected the, and if they don’t obey they should get extreme punishment.


"Human Nature does not determine our actions; it inclines us towards us towards certain actions."
This quote is saying that, just because you want to become a professional soccer player does not mean you’re going to become a professional soccer player, but your heart to become professional makes you want to work harder and train harder to achieve your goal/wish. Your behavior won’t determine your outcome but if it’s a strong belief it will strive you to complete the good you wish. This is like one of those commercials, where people have two paths to choose from because they get to decide their own destination. Hobbes disagrees, because people are always bad in the inside (heart), but they might not act it because people are always thinking about the consequences, that’s why people doesn’t want to demonstrate their bad side.