During this quarter we have covered a lot of material. The political theory of Rousseau has been the most challenging for me to get a grasp of. It has been the most difficult for me, because he does not lay out his theory as systematically as Locke and Hobbes. In his work he jumped around a fair amount in his work. This forced me to really engage the text. I had to really think about the message he was trying to convey and put it together in my mind like a puzzle. After I put together this puzzle, his theory became much clearer to me. The political theory of Thomas Hobbes was the easiest for me to grasp. It was the easiest, because his theory is laid out very neatly and organized. His work was very concise and to the point, which enabled me to understand his theory in a faster fashion than Rousseau’s. Writing papers this quarter has also posed as a challenge for me. It was challenging for me because, I was asked to compare and contrast political theorists and make a case for why one of their theories was more compelling without saying one was wrong or right. This was difficult for me to grasp, because in order to do it well I had to walk a very thin line. In my first paper I flopped back and forth with comparing and contrasting without making a case for which one had the more compelling theory and writing that one was wrong and the other was right. These are a few of the aspects this quarter that after reflecting on them, I understood better.
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