I am out of undergraduate school, and in the not so distant future will be hearing responses from the rest of the grad programs I applied to, namely Colorado and Loyola New Orleans among others.
I also read for fun for the first time since middle school, here are more favorite quotes re: human nature theorists:
"For Locke, society is something like a farm or a garden, self-authority and society, like a farmer, nurtures and cultivates the soil of human nature (I'm not sure about the idea of that as a stable concept but what the heck) in a way consistent with the laws of nature (how we deal with each other) so that human beings will flourish peacefully and autonomously"
... It goes on to say ...
"For Rousseau, the invention of society is more like the invention of human flight. Like an aircraft, according to him, society must honor nature (that sounds regressive, and kind of dangerous. Honor something essentially defined by whomever has upper power?) and nature's rights (lest it crash in terrible corruption)"
... last but not least ...
"For Hobbes (no not Calvin's friend, although that would've been a sweet twist:), the state/authority and society exist largely in order to limit, control, and oppose nature. Like wild beasts that must be broken and bridled, humans must be coerced by threats. Like a caged animal in a zoo, human beings can remain good only by being contained"
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