Thomas Hobbes, an English Philosopher, is accredited to be the father of what is known as the modern political philosophy. A realist in politics, as a political philosopher, Hobbes always addressed the means by man should structure his life in a way to protect his life and have a well respectable one. Hobbes addressed the world of today directly, as authority requires justification filled with political inequality. For him, the world is the place where people are supposed to have rights that will
Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679), John Locke (1632 – 1704) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778) are the three principle scholars who built up the Natural Rights theory. Thomas Hobbes was the first champion of the theory of 'common rights'. In his commended book, 'Leviathan', he supported that no individual could ever be denied of the privilege
Theoretical and Conceptual Framework The principles and concepts that have helped shape the framework of this study are mainly drawn from the structural functionalist theory, social contract theory, reinforcement theory, the UN Humanitarian Resolution 46/182 of 1991, the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 (R.A. 10121), the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Framework of the Philippines, and the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan, 2011 to